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Nova
Data General Nova 1200 front panel
Manufacturer
Data General
Product family
Nova
Operating system
RDOS
A Nova system (beige and yellow, center bottom) and a cartridge hard disk system (opened, below Nova) in a mostly empty rack mountA Nova 1200, mid-right, processed the images generated by the EMI-Scanner, the world's first commercially available CT scanner.
The Data General Nova is a series of 16-bit minicomputers released by the American company Data General. The Nova family was very popular in the 1970s and ultimately sold tens of thousands of units.
The first model, known simply as "Nova", was released in 1969.[1] The Nova was packaged into a single 3U rack-mount case and had enough computing power to handle most simple tasks. The Nova became popular in science laboratories around the world. It was followed the next year by the SuperNOVA, which ran roughly four times as fast.
Introduced during a period of rapid progress in integrated circuit (or "microchip") design, the line went through several upgrades over the next five years, introducing the 800 and 1200, the Nova 2, Nova 3, and ultimately the Nova 4. A single-chip implementation was also introduced as the microNOVA in 1977, but did not see widespread use as the market moved to new microprocessor designs. Fairchild Semiconductor also introduced a microprocessor version of the Nova in 1977, the Fairchild 9440, but it also 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 and other features required by modern operating systems. A 32-bit upgrade of the Eclipse resulted in the Eclipse MV series of the 1980s.
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on microNOVA-based "Micro Products" micro-minicomputers is sometimes called DG/RDOS. RDOS was superseded in the early 1980s by DataGeneral's AOS family...
until 1988. The Eclipse was based on many of the same concepts as the DataGeneralNova, but included support for virtual memory and multitasking more suitable...
character set led to the move to 16-bit systems, with the late-1969 DataGeneralNova being a notable entry in this space. By the early 1970s, most minis...
DataGeneral Business Basic was a BASIC interpreter (based on a version from MAI Basic Four) marketed by DataGeneral for their Nova minicomputer in the...
needed]. Later it was ported to the Computer Automation LSI4 and the DataGeneralNova. Work on a Motorola 68000 version started in 1981 at the University...
perhaps best known for designing the DataGeneralNova series of computers. De Castro was founder and CEO of DataGeneral Corporation throughout the 1970s...
memory access involved. Some early minicomputers (e.g. DEC PDP-8, DataGeneralNova) had only a few registers and only a limited direct addressing range...
1960s, with models from Digital Equipment Corporation (PDP line), DataGeneral (NOVA), Hewlett-Packard (HP3000) widely used in science and research as...
built on a DataGeneralNova platform. Starting around 1975, Computervision built its own "CGP" (Computervision Graphics Processor) Nova-compatible 16-bit...
simultaneously on remote terminals. This general model became popular on minicomputer systems like the PDP-11 and DataGeneralNova in the late 1960s and early 1970s...
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DataGeneral Extended BASIC, also widely known as Nova Extended BASIC, was a BASIC programming language interpreter for the DataGeneralNova series minicomputers...
version of Lotus 1-2-3. The original version of STOIC was written on a DataGeneralNova minicomputer and cross-assembled for the 8080. STOIC came with its...
introduced by Fairchild Semiconductor in 1977. The 9440 implemented the DataGeneralNova 2's instruction set in a single-chip 40-pin DIP. The name "MICROFLAME"...
developed a series of high-speed paper tape machines, and produced DataGeneralNova machines under license. What would become RC began as an advisory...
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at no cost. By 1983, MMI customers ran versions on the DEC PDP-11, DataGeneralNOVA, Hewlett-Packard HP 2100, MDS800 and others. A widely used MS-DOS...
boot programs to be included as part of the computer. The DataGeneralNova 1200 (1970) and Nova 800 (1971) had a program load switch that, in combination...
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