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1972–1998 American producer of minicomputers
Prime Computer, Inc. was a Natick, Massachusetts-based producer of minicomputers from 1972 until 1992. With the advent of PCs and the decline of the minicomputer
Prime_Computer
Operating system
PRIMOS is a discontinued operating system developed during the 1970s by Prime Computer for its minicomputer systems. It rapidly gained popularity and by the
PRIMOS
Decomposition of a number into a product
number is divisible by prime numbers 2, 3, 5, and so on, up to the square root of n. For larger numbers, especially when using a computer, various more sophisticated
Integer_factorization
2007 video game
2007). "Alpha Prime". ComputerGames.ro. Archived from the original on September 14, 2007. Retrieved November 30, 2024. "Alpha Prime". Metacritic. Fandom
Alpha_Prime
Number divisible only by 1 and itself
A prime number (or a prime) is a natural number greater than 1 that is not a product of two smaller natural numbers. A natural number greater than 1 that
Prime_number
Former American computer company
and Prime Computer. The company was purchased by Unisys in 1988. The Distributed Systems division was responsible for the IWS, AWS, and NGEN computers. These
Convergent_Technologies
American computer manufacturer (1980–1989)
was founded in 1980 by William Poduska (a founder of Prime Computer) and others. Apollo Computer developed and produced Apollo/Domain workstations in
Apollo_Computer
Mid-1960s–late-1980s class of smaller computers
Massachusetts Route 128, including Data General, Wang Laboratories and Prime Computer. Other popular minis from the era were the HP 2100, Honeywell 316 and
Minicomputer
constitute personal computers (including desktop computers, portable computers, laptops, all-in-ones, and more), mainframe computers, minicomputers, servers
List of computer system manufacturers
List_of_computer_system_manufacturers
Prime number of the form 2^n – 1
search for the largest known prime has somewhat of a cult following.[citation needed] Consequently, a large amount of computer power has been expended searching
Mersenne_prime
{2^{148}+1}{17}}} were found without a computer, while the primes starting with 180×(M127)2+1 were found using computers. GIMPS volunteers found the 16 latest
Largest_known_prime_number
1984–1996 technology consortium
Europe; AT&T, Digital, Unisys, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, NCR, Sun, Prime Computer, Apollo Computer from North America; Fujitsu, Hitachi, and NEC from Japan; plus
X/Open
minicomputers from Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), Data General, Prime Computer, and others. By today's standards, they were very large (about the size
History_of_personal_computers
Computing resource shared by concurrent users
Honeywell, IBM, RCA, Univac, and XDS. In 1975, acting president of Prime Computer Ben F. Robelen told stockholders that "The biggest end-user market currently
Time-sharing
Operating system released in 1965
run on Prime Computer 50-series systems. It was then sold to Prime Computer and renamed Prime INFORMATION.[citation needed] In 1985 25% of Prime systems
Pick_operating_system
Natural number
number following 1 and preceding 3. It is the smallest and the only even prime number. Because it forms the basis of a duality, it has religious and spiritual
2
Family of semiconductor products
description languages such as VHDL or Verilog, and compiled using the Quartus Prime computer software. Higher level design languages, such as SYCL, are supported
Agilex
Minicomputer built by Honeywell
stand-alone implementation of Forth at NRAO in 1971. The original Prime computers were designed to be compatible with the Series-16 minicomputers. The
Honeywell_316
Topics referred to by the same term
(pharmacology), a herbal remedy SiMPLE, a computer programming development system SIMPLE, a 4GL environment for the Prime Computer, when running INFORMATION SIMPLE
Simple
Indian actress (born 1985)
Delhi Crime (2019), Out of Love (2019-2021), A Suitable Boy (2020), and OK Computer (2021). In addition to films, Dugal is also active in the television industry
Rasika_Dugal
Topics referred to by the same term
calculator model Prime Computer, a producer of minicomputers Prime F.C., a Nigerian football club Prime parry, a parry form in fencing Prime (cycling), an
Prime_(disambiguation)
Programmable graphing calculator
Model) Computer Algebra System (G1 Model) Comparison of HP graphing calculators HP calculators List of Hewlett-Packard products DB48X (RPL for HP Prime) Kuperus
HP_Prime
American computer software company
developers. PTC was founded by Samuel Geisberg, and Mike Payne formerly from Prime Computer, Computervision, and Applicon, in 1985.In 1988, Steve Walske named CEO
PTC_Inc.
Type of FPGA integrated circuit
description languages such as VHDL or Verilog, using the Intel Quartus Prime computer software. Altera FPGAs have been used in automotive, optical imaging
Stratix
CAD program
package. Prime was divided into the two main divisions: Prime Hardware, which was responsible for the proprietary computer hardware, and Prime Computervision
MEDUSA4
American venture capital firm
completed the acquisition of Prime Computer. In 1988, "corporate raider" Bennett S. LeBow, who controlled a smaller computer maker, MAI Basic Four, began
J._H._Whitney_&_Company
Early company in Computer Aided Design and Manufacturing
Unix-based platforms. Computervision was acquired by Prime Computer in 1988 for $434 million. Prime subsequently adopted the Computervision name. On December
Computervision
American crime drama television series (2026–present)
producers alongside Cornwell and Sarnoff. The series premiered on Amazon Prime Video on March 11, 2026. Kay Scarpetta (Nicole Kidman) is a brilliant forensic
Scarpetta_(TV_series)
American engineer and entrepreneur
engineer and entrepreneur . He was a founder of Prime Computer, Apollo Computer, and Stellar Computer. Prior to that he headed the Electronics Research
William_Poduska
Glyph used as an apostrophe or a quotation mark
apostrophe and a single right (closing) quotation mark. This is due to the many computer fonts and character sets (such as CP1252) that unified the characters into
Right_single_quotation_mark
Prime Minister of Israel (1996–1999; 2009–2021; 2022–present)
21 October 1949) is an Israeli politician and diplomat who has served as Prime Minister of Israel since 2022. Having previously held office from 1996 to
Benjamin_Netanyahu
Algorithm for the minimization of Boolean functions
Boolean Function Having an Arbitrary Prescribed Prime Implicant Table". IEEE Transactions on Computers. 14: 485–488. doi:10.1109/PGEC.1965.264175. Paul
Quine–McCluskey_algorithm
Country in South Asia
prime minister of the Dominion of India, an office he held until January 26, 1950, when India became a republic; Nehru remained the caretaker prime minister
India
Implementation of arithmetic operations
Computer arithmetic is the scientific field that deals with representation of numbers on computers and corresponding implementations of the arithmetic
Computer_arithmetic
American engineer and programmer (born 1950)
technology entrepreneur, electrical engineer, computer programmer, and inventor. In 1976, he co-founded Apple Computer (now Apple Inc.) with his early business
Steve_Wozniak
Playground Network – 2013 Edge – 2000, 2009, 2015, 2017 Electronic Fun with Computers & Games – 1984 Empire – 2009 Entertainment Weekly – 2003 Esquire – 2018
List of video games listed among the best
List_of_video_games_listed_among_the_best
Security vulnerability in Diffie–Hellman key exchange
that use Diffie–Hellman key exchange with the same prime number. It was discovered by a team of computer scientists and publicly reported on May 20, 2015
Logjam_(computer_security)
Algorithm for public-key cryptography
them—is the product of the prime numbers. The security of RSA is related to the difficulty of factoring the product of two large prime numbers, the "factoring
RSA_cryptosystem
Mathematical models of strategic interactions
science, and is used extensively in economics, logic, systems science and computer science. Initially, game theory addressed two-person zero-sum games, in
Game_theory
Natural number
number following 6 and preceding 8. It is the only prime number preceding a cube. As an early prime number in the series of positive integers, the number
7
Type of extremely powerful computer
A supercomputer is a type of computer with a high level of performance as compared to a general-purpose computer. Supercomputers play an important role
Supercomputer
Private research university, Pakistan
The National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences (NUCES) (Urdu: قومی جامعہِ کمپیوٹر و ابھرتی ہوئی سائنس), commonly known as Foundation for Advancement
National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences
National_University_of_Computer_and_Emerging_Sciences
1965 science fiction novel by Frank Herbert
Duncan Idaho and Gurney Halleck. Thufir Hawat, the Duke's Mentat (human computers, able to store vast amounts of data and perform advanced calculations
Dune_(novel)
Computer-Aided Design/Computer-Aided Manufacturing
latter subsequently acquired Computervision, which had been acquired by Prime Computer. CAD/CAM originated in the 1960s; an IBM 360/44 was used to build via
CAD/CAM
Former computer museum in Boston, Massachusetts
1986–7, the museum acquired 27 computers, including a CDC 1604, MIT AI Lab CADR, MIT Lincoln Lab LINC, Prime Computer Model 300, Research Machines 380Z
The_Computer_Museum,_Boston
American multinational technology conglomerate
division; Kuiper Systems, a satellite Internet provider; and Amazon Lab126, a computer hardware R&D provider. Other subsidiaries include Ring, Twitch, IMDb, and
Amazon_(company)
British politician (born 1980)
Party since November 2024. Badenoch previously worked in the Cabinet for prime ministers Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak from 2022 to 2024. She was elected Member
Kemi_Badenoch
Natural number
called a sextet Six babies delivered in one birth are sextuplets Sexy prime pairs – Prime pairs differing by six are sexy, because sex is the Latin word for
6
Object-oriented programming language
can run on any Java virtual machine (JVM) regardless of the underlying computer architecture. The syntax of Java is similar to C and C++, but has fewer
Java_(programming_language)
British politician (born 1986)
served as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, Chief Secretary to the Prime Minister and Minister for Intergovernmental Relations since September 2025
Darren_Jones
Video game genre
Role-playing video games (RPGs), also known as computer role-playing games (CRPGs), comprise a broad video game genre generally defined by a detailed story
Role-playing_video_game
Number, approximately 3.14
computations. Nevertheless, in the 20th and 21st centuries, mathematicians and computer scientists have pursued new approaches that, when combined with increasing
Pi
Historical computer form factor
of computer history. Notable manufacturers of superminicomputers in 1980 included: Digital Equipment Corporation, Perkin-Elmer, and Prime Computer. Other
Superminicomputer
Video game award ceremony
and Medal of Honor: Allied Assault for "Computer First-Person Action Game of the Year". Metroid: Metroid Prime for "Console First-Person Action Game of
6th Annual Interactive Achievement Awards
6th_Annual_Interactive_Achievement_Awards
Canadian politician and professor (born 1967)
appointed to the Cabinet in November. In the 29th Canadian Ministry, chaired by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Anand was first the minister of public services
Anita_Anand
to tell a host computer to resume sending output after it was stopped by Control-S. 8 Control-S has been used to tell a host computer to postpone sending
List_of_Unicode_characters
Japanese animation
and cel production. Since the 1990s, animators have increasingly used computer animation to improve the efficiency of the production process. Early anime
Anime
Corporation (DEC), Data General, Prime Computer, and others. They originated as peripheral processors for mainframe computers, taking on some routine tasks
History of computing hardware (1960s–present)
History_of_computing_hardware_(1960s–present)
Decentralized hacktivist collective
taking them offline. Sabu also used a Tunisian volunteer's computer to hack the website of Prime Minister Mohamed Ghannouchi, replacing it with a message
Anonymous_(hacker_group)
Quantum algorithm for integer factorization
(October 1997). "Polynomial-Time Algorithms for Prime Factorization and Discrete Logarithms on a Quantum Computer". SIAM Journal on Computing. 26 (5): 1484–1509
Shor's_algorithm
American double agent and spy (1944–2023)
Hanssen's responsibility. He became known in the FBI as an expert on computers. Three years later, Hanssen transferred to the FBI's Soviet analytical
Robert_Hanssen
American alternative investment company
Indosuez in France. Blackstone and Silverman also acquired a 65% interest in Prime Motor Inn's Ramada and Howard Johnson franchises for $140 million, creating
Blackstone_Inc.
Number representing illegal information
program for deCSS. This is an illegal, executable prime. The above discusses ways to generate computer files which work functionally the same while altering
Illegal_number
Natural number
letter, ω. 8 is a composite number and the first number which is neither prime nor semiprime. By Mihăilescu's Theorem, it is the only nonzero perfect power
8
Country in Southeast Asia
has experienced political conflict between supporters and opponents of Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra (in office 2001–2006), leading to the 2006 and
Thailand
Fictional Starfleet rule in Star Trek
he proposes to destroy a computer controlling an entire civilization. Kirk interrupts him after Spock says, "Captain, our Prime Directive of non-interference"
Prime_Directive
Accomplishments in factoring large integers
quantum computer were replicated using a VIC-20, highlighting the ease of factoring numbers with particular structures. Largest known prime number "Factorization
Integer_factorization_records
British public service broadcaster
2018. John Radcliffe and Roberts Salkeld (1983), "Towards Computer Literacy – The BBC Computer Literacy Project 1979–1983", BBC Education. HTML version
BBC
American series of action films depicting the character created by Tom Clancy
franchise continued with a television series simply titled Jack Ryan, on Prime Video until 2023. Jack Ryan: Ghost War, which continues the show's story
Jack_Ryan_(franchise)
2014 stage play by Jordan Harrison
‹ The template Infobox play is being considered for merging. › Marjorie Prime is a dramatic science-fiction stage play written by American playwright
Marjorie_Prime_(play)
2002 video game
Metroid Prime is a 2002 action-adventure game developed by Retro Studios and published by Nintendo for the GameCube. It is the fifth main installment
Metroid_Prime
American video streaming service
Amazon Prime Video, known simply as Prime Video, is an American subscription video on-demand over-the-top streaming television service owned by Amazon
Amazon_Prime_Video
Mapping arbitrary data to fixed-size values
hash function returns an index tuple. This principle is widely used in computer graphics, computational geometry, and many other disciplines, to solve
Hash_function
Device used for calculations
statistical calculations. Some calculators even have the ability to do computer algebra. Graphing calculators can be used to graph functions defined on
Calculator
Product announced but never released
In the computer industry, vaporware (or vapourware) is a product, typically computer hardware or software, that is announced to the general public but
Vaporware
American technology corporation
for this service and withheld payments. The DOJ ultimately acquired Prime computers, and Inslaw began installing PROMIS on these in the second year of
Inslaw
Transformers: Prime is an animated television series which premiered on November 26, 2010, on Hub Network, Hasbro's and Discovery's joint venture, which
List of Transformers: Prime episodes
List_of_Transformers:_Prime_episodes
American actor (born 1959)
Sony Computer Entertainment. pp. 14−15. ISBN 0-06-083305-X. Universal Staff (1998). Crash Bandicoot: Warped Instruction Booklet. Sony Computer Entertainment
Clancy_Brown
Prime numbers that occupy prime-numbered positions
Super-prime numbers, also known as higher-order primes or prime-indexed primes (PIPs), are the subsequence of prime numbers that occupy prime-numbered
Super-prime
Protection of computer systems from information disclosure, theft or damage
Computer security (also cybersecurity, digital security, or information technology (IT) security) is a subdiscipline within the field of information security
Computer_security
English computer scientist (1912–1954)
(/ˈtjʊərɪŋ/; 23 June 1912 – 7 June 1954) was an English mathematician, computer scientist, logician, cryptanalyst, philosopher and theoretical biologist
Alan_Turing
2002 video game
areas. Fusion can be linked to Prime using the GameCube – Game Boy Advance link cable to unlock additional content for Prime. Fusion was acclaimed for its
Metroid_Fusion
President of Turkey since 2014
been the president of Turkey since 2014. He previously served as the 25th prime minister from 2003 to 2014 as part of the Justice and Development Party
Recep_Tayyip_Erdoğan
2.71828…, base of natural logarithms
Symposium on Computer Arithmetic (ARITH 2024). Porto, Portugal: IEEE. Retrieved 2025-07-21. Goldberg, David (March 1991). "What Every Computer Scientist
E_(mathematical_constant)
Describes approximate behavior of a function
The letter O stands for Ordnung, that is, the order of approximation. In computer science, big O notation is used to classify algorithms by how their run
Big_O_notation
Topics referred to by the same term
messaging developed by Prime Computer Public data network Paint.NET Portable Draughts Notation (.PDN), the standard computer format for recording draughts
PDN
Island country in Central Africa
consecutive terms. The prime minister is appointed by the president, and the 14 members of the cabinet are chosen by the prime minister. The National
São_Tomé_and_Príncipe
Business Basic variety
platform for an unsuccessful attempted hostile takeover of much larger Prime Computer. In 1990, the company changed its name to MAI Systems Corporation and
Basic/Four
Measure of algorithmic complexity
subfield of computer science and mathematics), the Kolmogorov complexity of an object, such as a piece of text, is the length of a shortest computer program
Kolmogorov_complexity
Indian writer and mental calculator (1929–2013)
mental calculator, astrologer, and writer, popularly known as the "Human Computer". Her talent earned her a place in the 1982 edition of The Guinness Book
Shakuntala_Devi
DreamWorks Animation media franchise
television series respectively aired on Nickelodeon and Nicktoons, Amazon Prime, and Netflix. Six short films: Secrets of the Furious Five (2008), Kung
Kung_Fu_Panda
American actor (born 1986)
Pennsylvania, on February 6, 1986 to Jeffrey and Cynthia DeHaan. His father is a computer programmer and his mother is an executive at MetLife. He has an older sister
Dane_DeHaan
Global system of connected computer networks
The Internet (or internet) is the global system of interconnected computer networks that uses the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) to communicate between
Internet
problems come from many areas of mathematics, such as theoretical physics, computer science, algebra, analysis, combinatorics, algebraic, differential, discrete
List of unsolved problems in mathematics
List_of_unsolved_problems_in_mathematics
Primitive programming language created in 1964
P′′ (P double prime) is a primitive computer programming language created by Corrado Böhm in 1964 to describe a family of Turing machines. It provided
P′′
Aborted Moon landing mission in the Apollo program
temperature, which included restarting the LM's guidance computer. Having the LM's computer running enabled Lovell to perform a navigational sighting
Apollo_13
Day of the year
defeats Garry Kasparov in the last game of the rematch, becoming the first computer to beat a world-champion chess player in a classic match format. 1998 –
May_11
Characterization of how many integers are prime
{\displaystyle \log _{e}(x)} . In mathematics, the prime number theorem (PNT) describes the asymptotic distribution of prime numbers among the positive integers. It
Prime_number_theorem
Animated television series
Sonic Prime is an animated television series based on the Sonic the Hedgehog video game series, co-produced by Sega Sammy Group, WildBrain Studios and
Sonic_Prime
Type of prime number
{\displaystyle \log \log _{x}y} . Several computer searches have been done in the hope of finding new Wilson primes. The Ibercivis distributed computing project
Wilson_prime
PRIME COMPUTER
PRIME COMPUTER
Surname or Lastname
English
English : unexplained.Serbian : unexplained.
Boy/Male
Arabic, Muslim, Pashtun
Prime Chief
Male
Italian
Italian and Spanish form of Latin Primus, PRIMO means "first."
Boy/Male
Arabic, Muslim
Prime Minister
Boy/Male
Hindu, Indian
Chief; Prime
Boy/Male
Indian, Tamil
Important; Prime
Girl/Female
Latin
Firstborn.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : from a Middle English personal name or nickname. The personal name existed in Old English, and is probably derived from Old English prim ‘early morning’ (from Latin primus ‘first’, used as the name of one of the canonical hours). The surname may be derived from this word as a Middle English nickname in the sense ‘fine’, ‘excellent’.French : feminine form of Prim 3.Dutch : variant of Priem.Probably an Americanized spelling of German Preim, a topographic name (of Slavic origin), perhaps from a river near Hannover; or of Preime, a variant of Primus.
Male
English
English surname transferred to forename use, derived from the Middle English element pris, PRICE means "price" or "prize."Â
Girl/Female
Hindu
Love, Affection
Female
English
English name derived from Latin prima, PRIMULA means "first, prime."
Boy/Male
Muslim
Prime minister
Surname or Lastname
German
German : of uncertain origin; possibly from the Latin personal name Primus (‘the first’), borne by several saints; or one composed with a Germanic word meaning ‘to prick or stab’; or from a personal name of Slavic origin Primm, from prēmu ‘right’.French : from a personal name (from Latin Primus).French : nickname from Old French prim ‘first’, possibly given to the eldest child in a family, or alternatively a nickname from Old French and Occitan prim ‘shrewd’, ‘clever’, ‘artful’, ‘sly’.Dutch : variant of Priem.English : variant of Prime.Some of the Prim families in VT descend from a Simon Laval dit Printemps, who was known in English-speaking areas as Seymour Prim.
Boy/Male
Welsh American
Son of Rhys.
Surname or Lastname
Welsh
Welsh : Anglicized form of Welsh ap Rhys ‘son of Rhys’ (see Reece). This is one of the commonest of Welsh surnames. It has also been established in Ireland since the 14th century, where it is sometimes a variant of Bryson.English : the name is also found very early in parts of England far removed from Welsh influence (e.g. Richard Prys, Essex 1320), and in such cases presumably derives from Middle English, Old French pris ‘price’, ‘prize’, perhaps as a metonymic occupational name for a fixer of prices.Americanized spelling of Jewish Preuss or Preis.
Girl/Female
Australian, French, German, Italian, Latin, Swedish
First-born
Surname or Lastname
English
English : from the Old Norse personal name GrÃmr, which remained popular as a personal name in the form Grim in Anglo-Scandinavian areas well into the 12th century. It was a byname of Woden with the meaning ‘masked person’ or ‘shape-changer’, and may have been bestowed on male children in an attempt to secure the protection of the god. The Continental Germanic cognate grÄ«m was also used as a first element in compound names. Compare Grimaud and Gribble, with the original sense ‘mask’, ‘helmet’. Some examples of the surname may derive from short forms of such names.
Boy/Male
Indian, Italian, Latin
First Born
Boy/Male
Australian, British, Christian, English, Welsh
Son of Rhys; Ardent; Son of the Ardent; Prize
Boy/Male
Indian
Prime
PRIME COMPUTER
PRIME COMPUTER
Surname or Lastname
English
English : nickname from Middle English drink + water. In the Middle Ages weak ale was the universal beverage among the poorer classes, and so cheap as to be drunk like water, whereas water itself was only doubtfully potable. The surname was perhaps a joking nickname given to a pauper or miser allegedly unable or unwilling to afford beer, or may have been given in irony to an innkeeper or a noted tippler. Compare French Boileau, German Trinkwasser.
Girl/Female
Hebrew
Healer.
Boy/Male
Indian, Punjabi, Sikh
Having Exalted Divine Knowledge
Girl/Female
Muslim
Successful
Girl/Female
Tamil
Pratigya | பà¯à®°à®¤à®¿à®œà¯à®žà®¾
Pledge, Vow
Surname or Lastname
English
English : habitational name from Risley in Derbyshire and Lancashire or Riseley in Bedfordshire and Berkshire, all so named from Old English hrīs ‘brushwood’ + lēah ‘clearing’.
Boy/Male
Indian
Love Bud
Girl/Female
Indian, Kannada
One; United; Unique
Boy/Male
Hindu, Indian, Tamil
Lord Ganesha
Boy/Male
Hindu, Indian
New
PRIME COMPUTER
PRIME COMPUTER
PRIME COMPUTER
PRIME COMPUTER
PRIME COMPUTER
n. & v.
Reward; recompense; as, the price of industry.
n.
See Price, and 1st Prize.
imp. & p. p.
of Prime
a.
First in rank, degree, dignity, authority, or importance; as, prime minister.
a.
Marked or distinguished by a mark (') called a prime mark.
#
Donne (#) (pl. ) of Prima donna
a.
To mark with a prime mark.
v. t.
To set a price on; to value. See Prize.
a.
Formal; precise; affectedly neat or nice; as, prim regularity; a prim person.
a.
A prime number. See under Prime, a.
n.
One who, or that which, primes
n. & v.
See Prize, n., 5. Also Prize, v. t.
a.
Being in its prime.
a.
To prepare; to make ready; to instruct beforehand; to post; to coach; as, to prime a witness; the boys are primed for mischief.
v. t.
To pay the price of.
n.
That which occasion crime.
v. t.
To ask the price of; as, to price eggs.
n.
Highest pitch; elevation reached; loftiness; prime; glory; as, to be in the pride of one's life.
a.
First in excellence; of highest quality; as, prime wheat; a prime quality of cloth.
a.
To lay the first color, coating, or preparation upon (a surface), as in painting; as, to prime a canvas, a wall.