Historical overview

A origins of Norsk Information last back to a development of digital computers at the Norwegian Defense Research Establishment at Kjeller, Norway, where many early computers got been designed, like a SAM & a SAM Two aka FLINK.

A profits of this program resulted in the foundation of A/S NorInformatiin - Norsk Data Elektronikk on August 8, 1967 by Lars Monrad Krohn, Per Bjørge and Rolf Skår. the company became a important provider of minicomputers to several scientific research, particularly to CERN in Geneva, Switzerland, where it were chosen to create a computers for their Nuclear Accelerator Design. A more market segments Norsk Information succeeded within were Norwegian municipal administration data centers, newspapers, when well as area of the training & university sector.

When an extended period of outstanding profits, a Norsk Information "empire" collapsed in a early Nineties, mostly imputable does'nt realizing the impact of the PC revolution (when well as a growing competition from either UNIX-based workstations). Norsk Information technology was continued by Dolphin.

Hardware

Important Norsk Information computer system include:

NORD-1, 16-bit minicomputer launched in 1968, could start TSS (watch in the image below) from either 1971 NORD-5, 32-bit supermini launched in 1972 NORD-9 NORD-10, 16-bit mini lauched within 1973 NORD-10/S, version of the Nord-10 by using cache, paging, & more improvements NORD-50, second generation 32-bit supermini around 1975 NORD-100, 16-bit, from either 1978, later renamed ND-100. Number one lone-board Sixteen-bit minicomputer. NORD-100/CE, Commercial Extended, sustaining decimal arithmetical videos (A decimal instruction placed was late renamed CX) ND-110/CX, improved ND-100 ND-120/CX, improved ND-110 ND-100 Satellite, little ND-100 technique by using trend lines for even either V or Ninthe from carolina terminals, within a little example. ND-500, third generation 32-bit supermini in 1981 ND-505, 28-bit computer allowed through the Eastern bloc embargo ND-510/CX ND-520 ND-540 ND-570/CX, globe's fastest 32-bit supermini within 1983, 7.Single Whetstone MIPS ND-580, multiple ND-570 CPU systems. ND-5000, fourth generation 32-bit supermini within 1987 ND-5700 ND-5850, fifth generation 32-bit supermini in 1987 ND-5902 & ND-5904, dual- & quad-CPU 5000 series machines

Software

Additionally to devices, Norsk Information besides produced the wide range of patterns & application computer software:

TSS – Nord Time Sharing System from 1971 SINTRAN – Operating system for Nord 1& late system, version 3 from either 1973, III/VS in 1974 SIBAS database in 1975 FORTRAN compiler BASIC compiler COBOL compiler Pascal compiler developed in Kiel, Germany PED – "Programmer's EDitor" Screen oriented text editor NOTIS – Integrated, modular word processing and database application suite NORTEXT – typesetting models integrated sustaining ND-NOTIS & SIBAS

The point of note: the World Wide Web originated when Tim Berners-Lee wrote the Enquire program on the SINTRAN III mini at CERN.