Multiflow Computer, Inc. , founded in April, 1984 near New Haven, Connecticut, USA, was a manufacturer and seller of minisupercomputer hardware and software embodying the VLIW design style. Multiflow, incorporated in Delaware, ended operations in March, 1990, after selling about 125 VLIW minisupercomputers in the United States, Europe and Japan.

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  • Multiflow Computer, Inc. , founded in April, 1984 near New Haven, Connecticut, USA, was a manufacturer and seller of minisupercomputer hardware and software embodying the VLIW design style. Multiflow, incorporated in Delaware, ended operations in March, 1990, after selling about 125 VLIW minisupercomputers in the United States, Europe and Japan. While Multiflow’s commercial success was small and short-lived, the fact of its technical success and the dissemination of its technology and people had a great effect on the future of computer science and the computer industry. Multiflow’s computers were arguably the most novel ever to be broadly sold, programmed, and used as if they were normal computers (other novel computers either required novel programming, or represented more incremental steps beyond existing computers). Along with Cydrome, an attached-VLIW minisupercomputer company that had less commercial success, Multiflow demonstrated that the VLIW design style was practical, a conclusion surprising to many. While still controversial, VLIW has since been a force in high-performance embedded systems, and has been finding slow acceptance in general-purpose computing.
  • Multiflow Computer, Inc. era una società produttrice di minisupercomputer e software per la progettazione di processori bastati su architettura VLIW. La società venne fondata nell'aprile 1984 nel New Haven nel Connecticut e smise di operare nel marzo del 1990 dopo aver venduto 125 minisupercomputer negli Stati Uniti d'America, Europa e Giappone. Sebbene il successo commerciale fu limitato insieme alla società Cydrome dimostrarono che l'architettura VLIW era funzionale e che era possibile realizzare sistemi ad alte prestazioni basati su quest'architettura. I brevetti delle società sono stati acquisiti da altre società che li hanno utilizzato in applicazioni embedded e anche in computer di uso generale.
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  • Multiflow Computer, Inc. , founded in April, 1984 near New Haven, Connecticut, USA, was a manufacturer and seller of minisupercomputer hardware and software embodying the VLIW design style. Multiflow, incorporated in Delaware, ended operations in March, 1990, after selling about 125 VLIW minisupercomputers in the United States, Europe and Japan.
  • Multiflow Computer, Inc. era una società produttrice di minisupercomputer e software per la progettazione di processori bastati su architettura VLIW. La società venne fondata nell'aprile 1984 nel New Haven nel Connecticut e smise di operare nel marzo del 1990 dopo aver venduto 125 minisupercomputer negli Stati Uniti d'America, Europa e Giappone.
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  • Multiflow
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