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Data General Eclipse S/130 front panel
ManufacturerData General
Product familyNova
Operating systemAOS
Data General microEclipse microprocessor

The Data General Eclipse line of computers by Data General were 16-bit minicomputers released in early 1974 and sold until 1988. The Eclipse was based on many of the same concepts as the Data General Nova, but included support for virtual memory and multitasking more suitable to the small office than the lab. It was also packaged differently for this reason, in a floor-standing case the size of a small refrigerator. The Eclipse series was supplanted by the 32-bit Data General Eclipse MV/8000 in 1980.

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Data General Eclipse

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The Data General Eclipse line of computers by Data General were 16-bit minicomputers released in early 1974 and sold until 1988. The Eclipse was based...

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Data General

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market. As the mini world moved from 16-bit to 32, DG introduced the Data General Eclipse MV/8000, whose development was extensively documented in the popular...

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Data General Nova

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saw limited use in the market. The Nova line was succeeded by the Data General Eclipse, which was similar in most ways but added virtual memory support...

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Data General RDOS

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64 KB memory space. Later versions of RDOS are compatible with Data General's 16-bit Eclipse minicomputer line. A cut-down version of RDOS, without real-time...

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Stack register

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PDP-11, VAX, and Intel x86 architectures. Some designs such as the Data General Eclipse had no dedicated register, but used a reserved hardware memory address...

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Data General Business Basic

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for their Nova minicomputer in the 1970s, and later ported to the Data General Eclipse MV and AViiON computers. Most business applications for the Nova...

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The Soul of a New Machine

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under tremendous pressure. The machine was launched in 1980 as the Data General Eclipse MV/8000. The book, whose author was described by the New York Times...

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Classes of computers

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DEC VAX or Data General Eclipse MV/8000) were usually 32-bit at a time when most minicomputers (such as the PDP-11 or Data General Eclipse or IBM Series/1)...

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Solar eclipse

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A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby obscuring the view of the Sun from a small part of Earth, totally or partially...

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B32 Business Basic

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Basic was a competitor to Data General Business Basic written by Murray Haszard in 1986. It ran on the Data General Eclipse MV line of computers initially...

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Accent kernel

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have a number of problems, notably that copying memory on their Data General Eclipse was very expensive. In 1979 one of the Aleph engineers, Richard Rashid...

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Data General AOS

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Data General AOS (an abbreviation for Advanced Operating System) was the name of a family of operating systems for Data General 16-bit Eclipse C, M, and...

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Aleph kernel

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message out of the conversation. RIG was implemented on a number of Data General Eclipse minicomputers. The ports were implemented using memory buffers, limited...

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Superminicomputer

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Equipment Corporation VAX-11/780, 1978 Prime Computer 750, 1979 Data General Eclipse MV/8000, 1980 IBM 4361, 1983 IBM 9370, 1987 The VAX-11/780 was the...

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Microcode

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are microprogrammed. Most Data General Eclipse minicomputers are microprogrammed. The task of writing microcode for the Eclipse MV/8000 is detailed in the...

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LINPACK

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(columns): 145 cm (57 in) 5.5 tons (Cray-1A) 115 kW @ 208 V 400 Hz Data General Eclipse COS, UNICOS 64-bit processor @ 80 MHz 8.39 Megabytes (up to 1 048...

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Tom West

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right out of college. He started working for Data General in 1974. He became the head of Data General's Eclipse group and then became the lead on the Eagle...

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Protection ring

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are instead assigned ring numbers in hardware. One example is the Data General Eclipse MV/8000, in which the top three bits of the program counter (PC)...

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List of operating systems

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Z80A and/or 68000 CPU AOS for 16-bit Data General Eclipse computers and AOS/VS for 32-bit (MV series) Eclipses, MP/AOS for microNOVA-based computers...

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