Amdahl
Amdahl Corporation
A US computer manufacturer, founded in 1970 by former IBM engineer Gene Amdahl. During the seventies, when IBM dominated the computer industry, Amdahl's plug-compatible machines gave IBM some of the little competition it had. Proverbially, savvy IBM customers liked to have an Amdahl mug visible in their office when IBM salespeople called.
Amdahl was a major
supplier of large mainframes, UNIX and Open Systems
software and servers, data storage subsystems, data
communications products, applications development software,
and a variety of educational and consulting services.
Amdahl products were sold in more than 30 countries for use in
both open systems and IBM plug-compatible mainframe
computing environments.
Quarterly sales $397M, profits $13M (Aug 1994).
In 1997 Amdahl became a division of Fujitsu.
Home http://www.amdahl.com/.
(1995-05-23)
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Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, © 1993-2003 Denis Howe
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