Editing Superminicomputer (section)

== Notable companies ==
Notable manufacturers of superminicomputers in 1980 included: [[Digital Equipment Corporation]], [[Perkin-Elmer]], and [[Prime Computer]].<ref name=IEEE1979/><ref name=supermini/> Other makers of systems included [[Systems Engineering Laboratories|SEL/Gould]] and [[Data General]].<ref name=E&P/> Four years later there were about a dozen companies producing a significant number of superminicomputers.<ref name=WSJ/> {{See below|table below}}

[[File:VAX 11-780 intero.jpg|thumb|right|DEC VAX-11/780 superminicomputer<ref name=Zorpette/>]]
{| {{table|sort}}
|+Companies and percentage of the superminicomputer market in 1985<ref name=WSJ/>
!Company!!Percent
|-
|[[IBM|International Business Machines]] (IBM)
| style="text-align:right;"|41.9
|-
|[[Digital Equipment Corporation]] (DEC)
| style="text-align:right;"|27.6
|-
|[[Data General]]
| style="text-align:right;"|6.0
|-
|[[Prime Computer]]
| style="text-align:right;"|5.6
|-
|[[PerkinElmer#Computer Systems Division|Perkin-Elmer]], formerly [[Interdata]]
| style="text-align:right;"|3.4
|-
|[[Wang Laboratories]]
| style="text-align:right;"|3.4
|-
|[[Gould Electronics|Gould]], formerly [[Systems Engineering Laboratories|SEL]]
| style="text-align:right;"|2.6
|-
|[[Hewlett-Packard]]
| style="text-align:right;"|2.2
|-
|[[Honeywell#Honeywell Information Systems|Honeywell]]
| style="text-align:right;"|2.2
|-
|[[Harris Computer Systems]]
| style="text-align:right;"|1.7
|-
|(other)
| style="text-align:right;"|3.4
|}
Perkin-Elmer spun off their Data Systems Group in 1985 to form [[Concurrent Computer Corporation]] which continued making these systems. [[Nixdorf Computer]], [[Norsk Data]], and [[Toshiba]] also produced systems.<ref name=super/>