A large collection of computing system devices that can be connected together in many combinations to produce a wide range of computing systems that share many characteristics, including a common machine language.; 一種由IBM生產(chǎn)的大型計(jì)算系統(tǒng)設(shè)備的集合體,它們能以多種組合方法連接到一起從而產(chǎn)生各 種檔次的能共享許多特點(diǎn)(包括公共機(jī)器語言)的計(jì)算機(jī)系統(tǒng)。