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The disadvantage of mainframes?

1. Cost of hardware

2. Special operating systems/software (more cost there, too).

You typically won't see a mainframe used unless some organization with really deep pockets has a mission-critical function that requires massive amounts of information to be processed, in a very reliable manner.

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