Trilogy Systems

Trilogy Systems
Nasdaq: TRILF
Founded1980; 44 years ago (1980)
Defunct1985 (1985)[1]
Successormerged into Elxsi[1]
HeadquartersCupertino, California,
United States
Key people
Gene Amdahl, Carl Amdahl, Clifford Madden

Trilogy Systems Corporation was a computer systems company started in 1980. Originally called ACSYS, the company was founded by Gene Amdahl, his son Carl Amdahl[2] and Clifford Madden. Flush with the success of his previous company, Amdahl Corporation, Gene Amdahl was able to raise $230 million for his new venture. Trilogy was the most well-funded start-up company up till that point in Silicon Valley history. It had corporate support from Groupe Bull, Digital Equipment Corporation, Unisys, Sperry Rand and others. The plan was to use extremely advanced semiconductor manufacturing techniques to build an IBM compatible mainframe computer that was both cheaper and more powerful than existing systems from IBM and Amdahl Corporation.

  1. ^ a b "In Memoriam: Gene Amdahl 1922-2015". Communications of the ACM. November 12, 2015.
  2. ^ "ACSYS"&pg=PA11 "Trilogy Systems Corp". Computerworld. 15 Jun 1981. pp. 11–12. Retrieved 4 December 2015.