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HIERARCHY OF COMPUTERS
Supercomputers are the most powerful computing system of them all - able to solve complex calculations in a matter of nanoseconds

Then next you have the mainframe, rather than focusing on single calculations mainframes are better at handling thousands of processes at once!
MiniComputers could be also called the mini-mainframes. They handle multiple simultaneous processes also but to a much smaller scale. Where mainframes handle thousands - a minicomputer is a scaled down version and can handle up to 200
And then you have your individual computer systems. The Workstation and the Personal Computer - however even though the Workstation has been before the more powerful computer - the personal computer market is quickly catching up and the line between both is slowly fading.