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Norsk Data was a ( mini-) computer manufacturer located in Oslo, Norway. Existing from 1967 to 1992, it had its most active period in the decade from the early 1970s to the mid-80s.

1 Historical overview

The origins of Norsk Data go back to the development of digital computers at the Norwegian Defense Research Establishment at Kjeller, Norway, where several early computers had been designed, such as the SAM and the SAM 2 aka FLINK.

The success of this program resulted in the founding of A/S Nordata - Norsk Data Elektronikk on August 8, 1967 by Lars Monrad Krohn, Per Bjørge and Rolf Skår. The company became a significant supplier of minicomputers to many research projects, in particular to CERN in Geneva, Switzerland, where they were chosen to produce the computers for their Nuclear Accelerator Project. The other market segments Norsk Data succeeded in were Norwegian municipal administrationA municipality or general-purpose district (see also: special-purpose district) is an administrative local area generally composed of a clearly defined territory and commonly referring to a city, town, or village government. Municipalities are not necessa data centers, as well as parts of the educational and university sector.

After a long period of great success, the Norsk Data "empire" collapsed in the early 1990s, mostly due to not realizing the impact of the PC revolution (as well as the growing competition from UNIX-based workstations). Norsk Data technology was continued by DolphinDolphin Interconnect Solutions is a manufacturer of high speed data communication systems, located in Natick, Massachusetts, USA and Oslo, Norway. The technology of Dolphin was based on development at Norsk Data. Initially as Dolphin Server Technology AS.

2 Hardware

Significant Norsk Data computer models include:

Nord-1, 16-bitIn computer science, 16-bit is an adjective used to describe integers that are at most two bytes wide, or to describe CPU architectures based on registers, address buses, or data buses of that size. Prominent 16-bit processors include the Intel 8086, Inte minicomputer launched in 1968, ran TSS (see below) from 1971
Nord-5, 32-bit supermini launched in 1972
Nord-9
Nord-10, 16-bit mini lauched in 1973
Nord-10S
Nord-50, second generation 32-bit supermini in 1975
Nord-100, 16-bit, from 1978
Nord-100/CE
ND-100 Compact, last delivery 2001
ND-120CX
ND-Satellite
ND-500, third generation 32-bit supermini in 1981
ND-505, 28-bit computer allowed through the Eastern bloc embargo
ND-510/CX
ND-520
ND-540
ND-570/CX, world fastest 32-bit supermini in 1983, 7.1 Whetstone MIPS
ND-5000, fourth generation 32-bit supermini in 1987
ND-5700
ND-5850, fifth generation 32-bit supermini in 1987
ND-5904

3 Software

In addition to hardware, Norsk Data also produced a wide range of system and application software:

TSS – Nord Time Sharing System from 1971
SINTRAN – Operating system for Nord 10 and later models, version III from 1973, III/VS in 1974
SIBAS database in 1975
FORTRAN compiler
BASIC compiler
COBOL compiler
Pascal compiler developed in Kiel, Germany
PED – Page oriented text editor
NOTIS – Integrated word processing and database application suite

A point of note: the World Wide Web originated when Tim Berners-Lee wrote the Enquire program on a SINTRAN III mini at CERN.

4 External links

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