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Data General

Data General Corporation was an early minicomputer firm formed in 1968. Three of the four founders were former employees of Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC).

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Founded
1968; 58 years ago (1968)
Industry
Computer
Headquarters
Westborough, Massachusetts
Defunct
1999 (1999)
Fate
Acquired
Products
Minicomputers, disk arrays

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Data General

Nodes185
Edges184
Triples338
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.010811
Components1

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Data General

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related to Alumni · 101
Data General → Advanced Development, After, Alliant Computer Systems, AOS/VS, Apollo Computer, Apple, Apple Computer, Asher Waldfogel, Banyan Systems, Be Inc, Bill Gates, BIOS, CEO, Chief Technologist, Consumer PC, Convex Computer, CORBA, Corporate Vice President, Craig Mundie, Data General Walkabout
related to Software · 27
Data General → AOS, AOS/VS, AOS/VS II, AViiON, CLI, COBOL, Command Line Interpreter, Data General Business Basic, DG, DG/DBMS, DG/SQL, DG/UX, DOS, DUMP/LOAD, Eclipse, Eclipse MV, Fortran, INFOS II, Nova, PL/I
related to Desktop Generation · 23
Data General → COBOL, CP/M-86, CPU, CPUs, Desktop Generation, Despite, DG/RDOS, DG10, DG10SP, DG20, DG30, Intel, Intel CPUs, Micro Products, MP/100, MP/200, MS-DOS, MV, Other, PC
related to Origin, founding and early years: Nova and SuperNova · 22
Data General → Castro, Computer Control Corporation, Convinced, De Castro, DEC, DEC's, DG, Digital Equipment, Digital Equipment Corporation, Edson, Fairchild Semiconductor, Harvey Newquist, Henry Burkhardt III, Herbert Richman, Hudson, It, Many PDP-8s, Massachusetts, PCBs, PDP-8
related to Dasher terminals · 20
Data General → ANSI X3, Business BASIC, CRT-based, D100, D2/D3/D100/D200/D210, D200, D210, D450/460, D460, Dasher, Data General Business BASIC, Data General One, Data General's, Desktop Generation DG10, DOS, Freeware, Most Data General, Terminal, The, WordPerfect
related to EMC takeover · 17
Data General → Although, August, Celerra, CLARiiON, Data General's, Dell, DG, DG's, EMC, EMC's, January, October, OEM, The, The CLARiiON, Unix, VNX
related to Final downturn · 16
Data General → AViiON, By, CPU, Despite Data General's, DG, IBM, Intel, Microsoft Windows NT, Motorola, POWER, PowerPC, Sequent Computer Systems, The, This, Unix, When Apple Computer
related to Fountainhead · 16
Data General → COBOL, DEC's, Development, DG, Digital, Eclipse, FHP, Fountain Head Project, Fountainhead Project, ISA, It, PDP-11, The, This, VAX, While DG
related to CLARiiON · 15
Data General → An, At, AViiON, CLARiiON, Data General MV, DG, EMC Symmetrix, HADA, Hewlett-Packard, High Availability Disk Array, SCSI RAID, Silicon Graphics, Sun Microsystems, The, The CLARiiON
related to Xodiac · 14
Data General → Because, Canada, CEO, Comprehensive Electronic Office, Datapac, DG, In, In June, Open Systems Interconnection, OSI, Telenet, This, US, Xodiac

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Data GeneralDefunct1999 (1999)1.00infobox
Data GeneralFateAcquired1.00infobox
Data GeneralFounded1968; 58 years ago (1968)1.00infobox
Data GeneralHeadquartersWestborough, Massachusetts1.00infobox
Data GeneralIndustryComputer1.00infobox
Data GeneralProductsMinicomputers, disk arrays1.00infobox
Data GeneralSuccessorEMC Corporation1.00infobox
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the D460instance ofwhile graphics models0.80text
the MP/100instance ofrange0.80text
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Sun Microsystemsinstance ofbut also to customers running servers from other vendors0.80text

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