Alliant Computer Systems

Alliant Computer Systems 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. Alliant was founded, as Dataflow Systems, in May 1982 by Gruner, Mundie and McAndrew to produce machin... more

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