Encore Computer Corporation
Encore Computer Corporation
Status of Organization
An indication of whether the organization still exists, and is still manufacturing,
selling or maintaining its platforms.
Platforms Documented:
(a list of platforms manufactured by the organisation)
Overview of Organization:
Encore was formed in May 1983 by Kenneth Fisher, who had previously
held senior positions in Honeywell and Prime, and has been credited
with building Prime into a major company. However, he decided to leave
after an internal dispute. For the first three years Encore was
primarily concerned with research and development of its Annex
terminal server, which was subsequently sold to Xylogics, and with the
Multimax UNIX machine. Early versions of the Multimax were not a great
success because a number of hardware problems resulted in poor
reliability. This delayed the launch of the machine and a number of
OEMs decided to withdraw from their marketing agreements. However,
Encore managed to rectify these faults and within a year the problem
had been solved.
Contact Address:
Location Headquarters: Encore Computer Corporation, 6901 West Sunrise Boule-
vard, Fort Lauderdale, Florida 33313, USA. Telephone: (305) 497 5430. UK
Head Office: Encore Computer (UK) Ltd., Marlborough House, Mole Busi-
ness Park, Randalls Road, Leatherhead, Surrey, England. Telephone: 0372
363636.
See Also:
Any other interesting documents, ftp sites or WWW servers.
Reflective Memory
Comments:
The current main product of the company is what they refer to as the
R/T Architecture, which is basically a high level architecture (HLA)
that incorporates open computer systems as connected elements. This is
based on the company's 
Reflective Memory Architecture. In short, it is a component of
DEC's OSF/1 AdvantageCluster products: is a patented interconnect
technology used for high performance data-sharing between cooperating
computer systems. It is referred to as Reflective Memory System (RMS).
RMS is the key technology of R/T Cluster Architecture that maintains a
balance between computational capabilities and I/O throughput.
R/T Cluster Architecture uses REFLECTIVE MEMORY to interconnect an
array of standard computers creating a massively parallel system.
The company offers various RMS products, take a look at Encore R/T
Options and I/O Controller Offerings.
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