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with ECL technology. The company was founded in 1983 by some Floating Point Systems, Intel and Tektronix engineers. The company was later renamed BIT Inc..
The initial product was a Floating point coprocessor chip set. Later, the company produced the B5000 SPARC ECL microprocessor (never reached production in a Sun Microsystems product, though used by Floating Point Systems) and the R6000 MIPS ECL microprocessor (which did reach production as a MIPS minicomputer). The manufacture of these processors were never really reliable, thus making them prohibitively expensive when compared to competing CMOS products. The company entered the telecommunications market with ATMATM is an initialism with the following meanings: Adobe Type Manager font management software from Adobe Systems Advanced Traffic Management and Arterial Traffic Management terms used in the intelligent transportation system industry. air traffic manageme devices and ethernetEthernet is a packet-based computer networking technology for local area networks (LANs). It defines wiring and signaling for the physical layer, and packet formats and protocols for the media access control (MAC)/ data link layer of the OSI model. Ethern switches. The company was eventually acquired by PMC-SierraPMC-Sierra was originally founded in 1984 as Sierra Semiconductor ( San Jose, California, USA). The company was a manufacturer of personal computer modems during this period. Pacific Microelectronics Centre ( Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada) was spun of in 19961996 was a leap year starting on Monday (see link for calendar), and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty''. Events January January 5 Hamas operative Yahya Ayyash is killed by an Israeli-planted booby-trapped cell phone Jan for these later communications products.
Defunct computer companies of the United States