PED (Editor)
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PED, the Programmers' EDitor, was a powerful screen-based text editor made by the Norwegian minicomputer
manufacturer Norsk Data
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Versions were available for SINTRAN III
running on both ND-100 and ND-500
architectures, as well as DolphinOS on the Motorola 88000
.
It took advantage of the special ND-NOTIS
terminals made by Tandberg Data
.
Minicomputer
A minicomputer is a class of multi-user computers that lies in the middle range of the computing spectrum, in between the largest multi-user systems and the smallest single-user systems...
manufacturer Norsk Data
Norsk Data
Norsk Data was a computer manufacturer located in Oslo, Norway. Existing from 1967 to 1992, it had its most active period in the years from the early 1970s to the late 1980s...
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Versions were available for SINTRAN III
SINTRAN III
SINTRAN III was a real-time, multitasking, multi-user operating system used with Norsk Data computers from 1974. Unlike its predecessors SINTRAN I and II, it was entirely written by Norsk Data....
running on both ND-100 and ND-500
ND-500
The ND-500 was a 32-bit superminicomputer delivered in 1981 by Norsk Data. It relied on a ND-100 to do housekeeping tasks and run the OS, SINTRAN III.A configuration could feature up to four ND-500 CPUs, in a shared-memory configuration....
architectures, as well as DolphinOS on the Motorola 88000
Motorola 88000
The 88000 is a RISC instruction set architecture developed by Motorola. The 88000 was Motorola's attempt at a home-grown RISC architecture, started in the 1980s. The 88000 arrived on the market some two years after the competing SPARC and MIPS...
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It took advantage of the special ND-NOTIS
ND-NOTIS
KHF 15:31, 10 August 2011 ND-NOTIS was a tightly integrated yet modular office automation suite by Norsk Data introduced in the early 80s, running on the SINTRAN III platform on both ND-100 and ND-500 architectures...
terminals made by Tandberg Data
Tandberg Data
Tandberg Data GmbH is a company focused on data storage products, especially streamers, headquartered in Dortmund, Germany. They are the only company still selling drives that use the QIC and VXA formats, but also produce LTO along with autoloaders, tape libraries, NAS devices, RDX Removable Disk...
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