Ferranti Orion
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Ferranti Orion
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The Orion was a mid-range mainframe computer introduced by Ferranti in 1959 and installed for the first time in 1961. Ferranti positioned Orion to be their primary offering during the early 1960s, complementing their high-end Atlas and smaller systems like the Sirius and Argus. The Orion was based on a new type of logic circuit known as "Neuron" and included built-in multitasking support, one of the earliest commercial machines to do so. Performance of the system was much less than expected and
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Type of mainframe computer
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferranti_Orion
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2024-04-09T15:03:10Z
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