Supermini Guide, Meaning , Facts, Information and Description
- For Supermini, the class of small car, see car classification.
A
supermini, by definition, is "a
minicomputer with high performance compared to ordinary minicomputers". The term was an invention used mainly to distinguish the emerging
32-bit minis from the classical
16-bit minicomputers. Reportedly coined by
DEC at their
VAX announcement in 1976, the term is now largely obsolete, but still remains of interest for students/researchers of
computer history.
Significant superminis
- Norsk Data Nord-5, first supermini, 1972
- Norsk Data Nord-50, 1975
- DEC VAX, 1978
- Data General Eclipse MV/8000, 1980
- Norsk Data ND-500, 1981
- Norsk Data ND-570/CX, fastest supermini, 1983, at 7.1 Whetstone MIPS
- ELXSI 6400, 1983
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