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| Company type | Public |
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| Industry | Computer |
| Founded | 1983 in Marlborough, Massachusetts |
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| Defunct | 1998 |
| Fate | Acquired by Gores Technology Group; subsequently sold to Compro Computer Services |
| Successor | Encore Real-Time Computing |
Encore Computer Corporation was an American computer company independently active from 1983 to 1997. Based in Marlborough, Massachusetts, the company was an early pioneer in the parallel computing market. Although offering several system designs beginning in 1985, Encore was never as well known as other companies in this field such as Pyramid Technology, Alliant, and the most similar systems Sequent and FLEX.
Encore was founded in 1983 by: Kenneth Fisher, former CEO of Prime Computer; Gordon Bell, an engineering vice president from Digital Equipment Corporation responsible for the development of the VAX; and, Henry Burkhardt III, co-founder of Data General and Kendall Square Research.[1] Their goal was to build massively parallel machines from commodity processors; their first design, the Multimax, was released in September 1985.[2] This was one of the first commercial designs to make use of bus snooping, allowing many processors to share the same memory efficiently.
- ^ "DEC VP Resigns to Join Ken Fisher's Next Venture". Computerworld. 1983-07-25. p. 6. Retrieved 2016-02-13.
- ^ Mitch Betts (1985-09-16). "Encore Computer ushers in Multimax supermini line". Computerworld. p. 14. Retrieved 2016-02-13.