- Xylogics
Xylogics started out building disk and other controllers for
DEC hardware.Xylogics was acquired by
Bay Networks in December of 1995 which in turn was acquired byNortel in June of 1998 [http://www.collectstocks.com/baynetincdel.html Collect Stocks: Bay Networks, Inc] .Xylogics was located in Burlington, MA.The
Multibus based Xylogics 450 SMD and Xylogics 451 ESMD disk controllers along with Interphase Multibus SMD disk controllers were significant to theworkstation andminicomputer industry during the 1980's as a low cost interface the the low cost, high performance, high capacity SMD and ESMD disk drives available at the time.Sun 1 ,Sun 2 andSun 3 servers [Sun 68000 Board User's Manual, Sun Microsystems, Inc, February 1933, Revision B] andSilicon Graphics IRIS [http://www.futuretech.blinkenlights.nl/iris-faq.html Silicon Graphics IRIS 2000/3000 FAQ] , HP/Apollo [http://www.umich.edu/~archive/apollo/partnos.txt HP/APOLLO SYSTEMS INFORMATION] all used Xylogics 450 and 451 disk controllers.References
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