Topic summary
Minicomputers
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Minicomputer.
Industrial impact and heritage
Several pioneering computer companies first built minicomputers, such as DEC, Data General, and Hewlett-Packard (HP) (who later referred to its HP 3000 minicomputers as "servers" rather than "minicomputers"). And although today's PCs and servers are clearly microcomputers physically, architecturally their CPUs and operating systems have developed largely by integrating features from minicomputers.