May 1980; 44 years ago (1980-05) in Santa Clara, California, USA
Founders
Edward J. Basart
Dave Folger
Ron Kolb
Hugh Martin
John Sell
Neil C. Wilhelm
Defunct
April 1990 (1990-04)
Fate
Dissolved
Headquarters
Santa Clara, California[1]
Sunnyvale, California[2]
,
USA
Products
Ridge workstations and minicomputers Ridge Operating System (ROS)
Number of employees
150[3]
Ridge Computers, Inc., was an American computer manufacturer active from 1980 to 1990. The company began as a builder of deskside workstations and workgroup servers and progressed to superminicomputers. They claimed to have produced the first commercially available Reduced instruction set computer (RISC) systems.[4][5][6]
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