Prime Computer, Inc was a Natick, Massachusetts-based producer of minicomputers from 1972 until 1992.
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11 Facts About Prime Computer
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Prime Computer's successor was 27-year IBM executive Joe M Henson, although Prime's president, Kenneth G Fisher, had briefly been the interim top executive.
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Prime Computer embarked on a project headed by Vladimir Geisberg to build a CAD-CAM system of its own called PRIMEDesign.
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Prime Computer failed to keep up with customers' increasing need for raw computing power.
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Prime Computer acquired the OAS application from its developer, ACS America Inc, a now-defunct New York City software house.
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Unlike the Pick operating system, a complete operating system, Prime Computer Information was not an operating system, but a 4GL system that ran from the Prime Computer PRIMOS operating system.
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Prime Computer Information was a re-implementation which deliberately left out some features and added others.
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Prime Computer Information allowed rapid 4GL or 4GL-like development of applications around relational or quasi-relational database structures.
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In c, Prime developed a system to conflict with OAS and confuse the market.
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Prime Computer's 2250 offered the combination Ford was looking for in a package smaller than the original CDCs.
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