The Encore Continuum: A complete distributed work station-multiprocessor computing environment
C. Gordon Bell, Henry B. Burkhart, Steve Emmerich, Anthony Anzelmo, Russell David Moore, David Schanin, Isaac Nassi, and CharJ.e Rupp · afips · 1899
The Encore Continuum is a UNIX-compatible computing environment designed to provide a range of computing styles from distributed work stations to host multis. The multi, meaning multiple microprocessor, is a new computer class that spans an order of magnitude performance range covering large micros to small mainframes. The multis’ parallelism can be exploited for transparent timesharing, transaction processing, and real time control. Multis are also likely to be the basis for parallel processing.