Encore Computer

<p>Encore Computer Corporation was an American computer company independently active from 1983 to 1997. Based in <a href="/facts/Marlborough%2c_Massachusetts/3Ukm1b1H">Marlborough, Massachusetts</a>, the company was an early pioneer in the <a href="/facts/Parallel_computing/nQzcpzQt">parallel computing</a> market. Although offering several system designs beginning in 1985, Encore was never as well known as other companies in this field such as <a href="/facts/Pyramid_Technology/9MakM7RT">Pyramid Technology</a>, <a href="/facts/Alliant_Computer_Systems/uhx29FKS">Alliant</a>, and the most similar systems <a href="/facts/Sequent_Computer_Systems/kTLC7aja">Sequent</a> and FLEX.
</p><p>Encore was founded in 1983 by: Kenneth Fisher, former CEO of <a href="/facts/Prime_Computer/BnmgcHA8">Prime Computer</a>; <a href="/facts/Gordon_Bell/kEsh4EwF">Gordon Bell</a>, an engineering vice president from <a href="/facts/Digital_Equipment_Corporation/ztxs6keA">Digital Equipment Corporation</a> responsible for the development of the <a href="/facts/VAX/N3r13IHH">VAX</a>; and, Henry Burkhardt III, co-founder of <a href="/facts/Data_General/EEABV3Gu">Data General</a> and <a href="/facts/Kendall_Square_Research/MfpMa6ld">Kendall Square Research</a>. Their goal was to build <a href="/facts/Massively_parallel/dX7W2Nxs">massively parallel</a> machines from commodity processors; their first design, the Multimax, was released in September 1985. This was one of the first commercial designs to make use of <a href="/facts/Bus_snooping/NUxKS0mb">bus snooping</a>, allowing many processors to share the same memory efficiently.
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Encore Computer