big iron
<jargon> (Or "heavy metal [Cambridge]) Large, expensive, ultra-fast
computers. Used generally of number crunching supercomputers such as Crays, but
can include more conventional big commercial IBMish mainframes. The term implies
approval, in contrast to "dinosaur".
[Jargon File]
(2000-11-09)
Nearby terms:
big blue « big-endian « Big Gray Wall « big iron »
BIG-LAN » Bigloo » bignum
