30. _________ computers are used in Banking, Railways, and Airlines. A.Mini computer B.Micro Computer C.Super Computer D.Mainframe Computer E.None of these
Option D Solution: Mainframe computers are computers used primarily by large organizations for critical applications; bulk data processing, such as census, industry and consumer statistics, enterprise resource planning; and transaction processing. They are larger and have more processing power than some other classes of computers: minicomputers, servers, workstations, and personal computers. Mainframes are built to be reliable for transaction processing as it is commonly understood in the business world: the commercial exchange of goods, services, or money. A typical transaction, as defined by the Transaction Processing Performance Council, updates a database system for inventory control (goods), airline reservations (services), Railway or banking (money) by adding a record.