Minisupercomputer

The appearance of even lower-priced scientific Workstation s based on Microprocessor s with high performance Floating Point Unit s (FPUs) during the 1990s (such as MIPS ' R8000 and IBM 's POWER2 ) eroded the demand for this class of computer.

NOTABLE MINISUPERCOMPUTER COMPANIES

Alliant Computer Systems (founded 1982 as Dataflow Systems; went bankrupt in 1992)

Convex Computer (founded 1982 as Parsec; acquired by Hewlett-Packard in 1995)

Floating Point Systems (founded 1970; acquired by Cray Research in 1991)

Multiflow Computer (founded 1984; ceased operation in 1990)

Scientific Computer Systems (founded 1983; switched to high-speed network development in 1989; now defunct)

SuperTek (founded 19 XX ; acquired by Cray Research 19 YY )

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