Editing Data General (section)

==Alumni==
*[[DJ Delorie]] designed PC motherboards and [[BIOS]] code for Data General for four years. He authored [[DJGPP]], and {{as of|2019|lc=y}} works for [[Red Hat]] on [[Gnu Compiler Collection|GCC]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.delorie.com/users/dj/|title=dj delorie}}</ref>
*[[Peter Darnell]] was a developer of [[DG/L]] and went on to develop C compilers for Unix and Windows. He wrote a book on C and is the developer of the visual programming language [[VisSim]] by [[Visual Solutions]].{{citation needed|date=October 2012}}
*[[Jean-Louis Gassée]] was with Data General in France before moving to [[Apple Inc.|Apple Computer]] and [[Be Inc.]]
*[[Ronald H. Gruner]] was head of Data General's Fountainhead project which competed with the MV/8000. After leaving DG he co-founded [[Alliant Computer Systems]] along with former DG colleague Craig Mundie.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.simple-talk.com/opinion/geek-of-the-week/ron-gruner-geek-of-the-week/|title=Ron Gruner: Geek of the Week - Simple Talk|date=25 July 2012}}</ref>
*[[David C. Mahoney]] founded [[Banyan Systems]] and pioneered Local Area network technologies in late 1980s along with Novell.{{citation needed|date=October 2012}}
*[[Craig Mundie]] was a software developer at Data General and later became Chief Technologist at [[Microsoft]].
*[[Mike Nash (engineer)|Mike Nash]] worked on AOS/VS kernel virtual terminal services for PCI and was a Corporate Vice President at Microsoft and is currently Vice President, Consumer PC & Solutions, Printing and Personal Systems Group, Hewlett-Packard Company.<ref>[http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/exec/mnash/default.mspx Microsoft PressPass – Microsoft Executives and Images<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/newsroom/press_kits/bios/Mike_Nash_bio.pdf|title=Executive Biography - Mike Nash}}</ref>
*[[Ray Ozzie]] was a software developer at Data General. He subsequently worked for [[Software Arts]], [[Lotus Development]], [[Iris Associates]], and [[Groove Networks]]. Groove Networks was acquired by [[Microsoft]] in 2005, and Ozzie replaced Bill Gates as chief software architect at Microsoft from 2006 until 2010.
*[[Jonathan Sachs]] co-founded [[Lotus Development]] where he authored [[Lotus 1-2-3|1-2-3]].
* Jit Saxena founded [[Netezza]], search technology company
*Christopher Stone founded [[Object Management Group]] (created [[CORBA]]) and became vice chairman/CEO of [[Novell]].
*[[Asher Waldfogel]] was a software engineer in Special Systems (software) who later went on to found [[Redback Networks]], Tollbridge Technologies and [[PeakStream]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www2.cla.umn.edu/clatoday/W2003/waldfogel.html|title=Asher Waldfogel: A choice beyond reason|date=2003|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080310004720/http://www2.cla.umn.edu/clatoday/W2003/waldfogel.html|archive-date=March 10, 2008}}</ref>
*[[Steve Wallach]] cofounded [[Convex Computer]].
*[[Joshua Weiss]] was a manager in the Xodiac Networking group who went on to co-found Prominet (bought by [[Lucent Technologies]]) and later was founder and CEO of Nauticus (bought by [[Sun Microsystems]]).{{citation needed|date=October 2012}}
*[[Vernon Weiss]] was a manager in the portable computing group who led the development of the [[Data General/One]], the Data General/Two, and the [[Data General Walkabout]].<ref name=notaseasy>{{cite journal | last=Krohn | first=Nico | date=April 1, 1991 | url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/194255983/ | title=Not as Easy as 1-2-3 | journal=InfoWorld | publisher=IDG Publications | volume=13 | issue=13 | pages=40–41 | via=ProQuest}}</ref><ref name=damer1>{{cite web | last=Damer | first=Bruce | author2=Allan Lundell | date=2004 | url=https://digibarn.com/collections/systems/dg-walkabout/index.html | title=Data General Walkabout | work=DigiBarn.com | publisher=DigiBarn Computer Museum | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20040225230129/https://digibarn.com/collections/systems/dg-walkabout/index.html | archivedate=February 25, 2004}}</ref> He was later a key person in the creation of the [[Dell XPS|XPS]] family of personal computers at Dell and was the director of the personal computing division at [[Packard Bell]] and a product manager at [[Northgate Computer Systems]].<ref name=dell>{{cite journal | last=Polilli | first=Steve | date=August 9, 1993 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qDsEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA28 | title=Dell listened to customer needs in redesign of its desktop lines | journal=InfoWorld | publisher=IDG Publications | volume=15 | issue=32 | page=28 | via=Google Books}}</ref><ref name=notaseasy /><ref>{{cite journal | last=Chen | first=Elaine | date=January 5, 1998 | url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/209720097/ | title=Low prices will shape the year | journal=Electronic News | publisher=Reed Business Information | volume=44 | issue=2200 | page=1, 46 | via=ProQuest}}</ref>{{rp|1}}
*[[Tom West]] was the manager for the MV/8000 and later projects.  He was the main protagonist of the [[Pulitzer Prize]] winning 1981 [[non-fiction]] book ''[[The Soul of a New Machine]]''.<ref>{{cite book|last=Kidder|first=Tracy|title=The Soul of a New Machine|year=1981 |orig-year=1997|publisher=Modern Library|isbn=978-0-316-49170-9}}</ref>
*[[Edward Zander]] was product marketing manager at Data General before his positions at [[Apollo Computer]], [[Sun Microsystems]] and [[Motorola]] as CEO.
*Wayne Rosing was hardware manager of Special Systems (hardware) who left to design the Lisa workstation for Apple.  Though not a commercial success, stripped down it became the Macintosh.  Rosing later went to Sun Microsystems where he was Vice President of Advanced Development, appearing on the cover of ''Fortune'' magazine.  He retired as VP of Hardware at Google.
*[[George Woltman]] went on to found the [[Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search]] (GIMPS) and is the author of [[Prime95]] (which is used to search for [[Mersenne Prime]] numbers and for hardware stress testing.)