• Three Rivers PERQ outstanding single user system
• SERC Agreement with ICL:
  • SERC buys 200 PERQs
  • ICL manufactures PERQs
  • Unix: Joint Development ICL and RAL
• First Personal Computers in UK
• Later over 200 Suns
• Distributed to university users
• Also superfast workstations:
  • Stardent 2000: Vector Processor, 80 MFlops peak performance, running AVS
  • AMT DAP: 1024 processors, SIMD architecture
• Local Area Networks: Cambridge Rings and Ethernets