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Re:IBM Launches New Mainframe with Focus on Security and Hyb... by orionblastar on Tuesday February 16, 2016 @06:49PM (#11114050)
Mainframes are designed for 100s of users at the same time. They have a lot more I/O than desktop computers have.

There is a lot of legacy COBOL and FORTRAN programs out there still in use that need legacy mainframes to run the code.

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