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Ken Olsen, DEC co-founder, dies at 84

...famed Route 128 technology corridor just outside Boston, along with companies like Data General and Wang. "Ken Olsen is in the elite club of tech... Read more

8 February, 2011 by Tom Krazit
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10 February, 2012

News Burst: Data General reorganises, lays off 400

...products. It expects to save $50 to $55m annually from the reorganisation. Data General's Aviion server division will now focus on the Windows NT... Read more

1 June, 1998 by Margaret Kane

Dell denies Data General buyout rumours

...that it is to mimic Compaq's purchase of Digital by buying Data General or another enterprise computing vendor Read more

26 February, 1998 by Martin Veitch

Data General urges consolidation on servers

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16 November, 1999 by Lisa Burroughes

EMC buys Data General for £1.1bn

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9 August, 1999 by Julian Goldsmith

Data General to build HSS WAN

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19 July, 1999 by Polly Raymond

Data General backs SAN for the future

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20 May, 1999 by Tony Hallett

SUN and its x86 Business

...numerous to name fully, but examples are WANG, Prime, Digital, Sequent and Data General. So for those who dare to enter this world, beware. Even... Read more

10 April, 2009

HP to deliver Unix improvements

...HP's Tru64 Unix, Silicon Graphics' Irix, Sequent's Dynix/ptx and Data General's DG/UX. HP-UX runs on HP servers using its... Read more

4 December, 2006 by Stephen Shankland

SGI to shutter Irix this year

...are Sequent's Dynix/ptx, which vanished after IBM bought the company; Data General's DG/UX, which disappeared along with the Aviion server it... Read more

11 September, 2006 by Stephen Shankland

Is Ray Ozzie the new Bill Gates?

...TK!Solver and VisiCalc, and did early distributed operating systems development at Data General. Ozzie earned a bachelor's degree in computer science at the... Read more

16 June, 2006 by Joris Evers

Putting the 'motor' in Motorola

...Digital Equipment and Data General aren't around anymore. So, you see things like WiMax and... Read more

5 June, 2006 by Michael Kanellos

Start-up promotes 'unlimited' AMD clusters

Liquid computing has developed a modular rack-based system, running Linux on dual-core Opterons, which will be available with up to 960 processors as standard Read more

10 May, 2005 by Stephen Shankland

Sun's plans...and how they could go wrong

...of Sun?" I gave him an honest answer. "Sun risks becoming the data general of the decade. The company could easily slide toward becoming a... Read more

22 September, 2004 by George Colony

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