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Re:Something is wrong when the ‘telephone app’ on your phone... by lokedhs on Thursday May 04, 2017 @09:31PM (#14270472)
In Swedish, the term "stordator", literally "big computer" refers to a mainframe.

I really like your idea of nano and picocomputers. It's consistent, and really reflects on the miniaturisation that we have seen since since the invention of the computer.

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Re:Something is wrong when the ‘telephone app’ on your phone... by ethbro on Friday May 05, 2017 @09:03PM (#14278034)
Since "computer" pre-dates digital, it might be a good time to come up with a more apt base term too. It's not as if most people's usage of them (at least as far as they know!) is performing arithmetic.
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Re:Something is wrong when the ‘telephone app’ on your phone... by chr on Monday May 08, 2017 @02:59AM (#14289769)
In Norwegian, it's "stormaskin" for mainframe.
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