iron
Hardware, especially older and larger hardware of mainframe class with big metal
cabinets housing relatively low-density electronics (but the term is also used
of modern supercomputers). Often in the phrase big iron. Oppose silicon.
See also dinosaur.
[Jargon File]
(1994-11-04)
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