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    The Data General Nova is a series of 16-bit minicomputers released by the American company Data General. The Nova family was very popular in the 1970s...
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    Data General Nova, was a 16-bit minicomputer intended to both outperform and cost less than the equivalent from DEC, the 12-bit PDP-8. A basic Nova system...
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  • on microNOVA-based "Micro Products" micro-minicomputers is sometimes called DG/RDOS. RDOS was superseded in the early 1980s by Data General's AOS family...
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  • Data General Business Basic was a BASIC interpreter (based on a version from MAI Basic Four) marketed by Data General for their Nova minicomputer in the...
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  • applications written in COBOL. BLIS was available on a range of Data General Nova and Data General Eclipse 16-bit minicomputers. It was marketed by Information...
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  • Look up Nova, nova, or novas in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A nova is an exploding star. Nova or NOVA may also refer to: Nova (fairy), in the U.S...
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    until 1988. The Eclipse was based on many of the same concepts as the Data General Nova, but included support for virtual memory and multitasking more suitable...
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    The 2024 Nova Scotia general election will be held on November 26, 2024, to elect members to the 65th General Assembly of Nova Scotia. The incumbent Progressive...
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    character set led to the move to 16-bit systems, with the late-1969 Data General Nova being a notable entry in this space. By the early 1970s, most minis...
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  • needed]. Later it was ported to the Computer Automation LSI4 and the Data General Nova. Work on a Motorola 68000 version started in 1981 at the University...
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    version of the game in 101 BASIC Computer Games while working with a Data General Nova 800 minicomputer at Westinghouse Electric Corporation and, having...
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  • 16-bit computing (category Data unit)
    16-bit computers (c. 1965–70) include the IBM 1130, the HP 2100, the Data General Nova, and the DEC PDP-11. Early 16-bit microprocessors, often modeled on...
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    1960s, with models from Digital Equipment Corporation (PDP lines), Data General (NOVA), and Hewlett-Packard (HP 2100 and HP 3000) widely used in science...
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    at no cost. By 1983, MMI customers ran versions on the DEC PDP-11, Data General NOVA, Hewlett-Packard HP 2100, MDS800 and others. A widely used MS-DOS...
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    simultaneously on remote terminals. This general model became popular on minicomputer systems like the PDP-11 and Data General Nova in the late 1960s and early 1970s...
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  • Fairchild 9440 (section Nova)
    introduced by Fairchild Semiconductor in 1977. The 9440 implemented the Data General Nova 2's instruction set in a single-chip 40-pin DIP. The name "MICROFLAME"...
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    Hewlett-Packard 21xx series and the Data General Nova, led the way toward word lengths that were multiples of the 8-bit byte. The Nova was first to employ medium-scale...
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  • memory access involved. Some early minicomputers (e.g. DEC PDP-8, Data General Nova) had only a few registers and only a limited direct addressing range...
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    a way to economically run the game on a minicomputer such as the Data General Nova, they hit upon the idea of instead replacing the central computer...
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    built on a Data General Nova platform. Starting around 1975, Computervision built its own "CGP" (Computervision Graphics Processor) Nova-compatible 16-bit...
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  • the Data General Nova series of computers. De Castro was born in Plainfield, New Jersey, on September 14, 1938. He was founder and CEO of Data General Corporation...
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    system developer for the Data General Nova computer at Systems Equipment Corporation. SEC was subsequently acquired by Data General Corporation, where Mundie...
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    developed a series of high-speed paper tape machines, and produced Data General Nova machines under license. What would become RC began as an advisory...
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    The General Assembly of Nova Scotia is the legislature of the province of Nova Scotia. It consists of one or more sessions and comes to an end upon dissolution...
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    The SuperPaint system was a custom computer system built around a Data General Nova 800 minicomputer CPU and a hand-wired shift register framebuffer....
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  • Data General Extended BASIC, also widely known as Nova Extended BASIC, was a BASIC programming language interpreter for the Data General Nova series minicomputers...
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  • COBOL Cobra Common Intermediate Language Crystal Cython Dart Darwin Data General Nova Deno DOORS Extension Language Easy Programming Language Эль-76 Elixir...
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  • introduced in 1965, uses two's complement arithmetic, as do the 1969 Data General Nova, the 1970 PDP-11, and almost all subsequent minicomputers and microcomputers...
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    the same fashion. The 1969 Data General Nova and successor Eclipse, and 1970 DEC PDP-11, minicomputers also provided general-purpose registers (called...
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  • small Mesa", as Charles Simonyi used to say). Alto BCPL compiled into Data General Nova machine instructions, which were in turn interpreted by Alto microcode...
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