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Alliant Computer Systems Corporation
Company typePrivate
IndustryComputers
Founded1982; 42 years ago (1982)
Founder
  • Ron Gruner
  • Craig Mundie
  • Rich McAndrew
Defunct1992 (1992)
FateBankruptcy
HeadquartersLittleton, Massachusetts, United States

Alliant Computer Systems Corporation was a computer company that designed and manufactured parallel computing systems. Together with Pyramid Technology and Sequent Computer Systems, Alliant's machines pioneered the symmetric multiprocessing market. One of the more successful companies in the group, over 650 Alliant systems were produced over their lifetime. The company was hit by a series of financial problems and went bankrupt in 1992.

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