Editing Floating Point Systems (section)

{{Short description|American computer hardware manufacturer (1970–1991)}}
{{Infobox company
| name = Floating Point Systems, Inc.
| logo = Floating Point Systems logo.svg
| type = 
| industry = Computer systems and components
| founded = {{Start date and age|1970}}
| defunct = {{End date|1991}}
| fate = Acquired by [[Cray]]
| successor = Cray Research Superservers
| key_people = [[Norm Winningstad]], founder and CEO
| products = 
}}
'''Floating Point Systems, Inc.''' ('''FPS'''), was a [[Beaverton, Oregon]] vendor of attached [[array processor]]s and [[minisupercomputer]]s. The company was founded in 1970 by former [[Tektronix]] engineer [[Norm Winningstad]],<ref name="pbj">{{cite news|url=http://www.bizjournals.com/portland/news/2010/11/25/norm-winningstad-dies-at-age-85.html|title=Norm Winningstad dies at age 85|last=Smith|first=Rob|date=November 25, 2010|work=[[Portland Business Journal]]|access-date=2 December 2010}}</ref> with partners Tom Prints, Frank Bouton and Robert Carter.  Carter was a salesman for [[Data General]] Corp. who persuaded Bouton and Prince to leave Tektronix to start the new company.  Winningstad was the fourth partner.<ref>G.B. Dodds, C.E. Wollner & M.M. Lee, ''The Silicon Forest'', Oregon Historical Society Press, 1990, p 46-55.</ref>