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These days? Very little; in the old days a 'mini' was something that fit into 1 room; a mainframe typically occupied several rooms and a PC (micro) was a desktop...

Nowadays, my calculator is a micro if you want to use the truest sense of the word. Today's calculators are more powerful than the worlds first Mainframe computers.

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