Ridge Computers

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Ridge Computers, Inc.
Industry Computer hardware
Computer software
FoundedMay 1980;43 years ago (1980-05) in Santa Clara, California, USA
Founders
  • Edward J. Basart
  • Dave Folger
  • Ron Kolb
  • Hugh Martin
  • John Sell
  • Neil C. Wilhelm
DefunctApril 1990 (1990-04)
FateDissolved
Headquarters
,
USA
ProductsRidge workstations and minicomputers
Ridge Operating System (ROS)
Number of employees
150 [3]

Ridge Computers, Inc., was an American computer manufacturer active from 1980 to 1990. The company began as a builder of deskside workstations and workgroup servers and progressed to superminicomputers. They claimed to have produced the first commercially available Reduced instruction set computer (RISC) systems. [4] [5] [6]

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Company history

Ridge Computers was established in May 1980 in Santa Clara, California by six original founders, five of whom had come from Hewlett-Packard (HP), and one from Zilog. [7] [3] [8]

The company was named for the Montebello Ridge, where two of the founders used to go cycling. [9]

Ridge's first prototype was running by autumn 1981, and entered beta testing one and a half years later in early 1983. The system was presented at the Comdex show in autumn 1983. The earliest CPUs were bit slice processors built from "Fast" ("F" infix) type 7400-series integrated circuits and Programmable Array Logic (PAL) devices. [3]

The Ridge CPU's qualification as a RISC design has been challenged due to its use of variable length instructions, multiple-cycle instruction decode, microcoded control store, and relatively rich instruction set, with over 100 instructions. [10] Other sources reaffirm the Ridge's RISC bona fides. [11] [12]

Ridge faced competition not only from Digital Equipment Corporation's popular VAX-11, but also from other early RISC adopters Celerity Computing and Pyramid Technology, the latter of which began shipping systems in March 1984. [10] [13] [14] [12] [15]

Although considered closer in configuration and capability to contemporary workstations, Ridge described their early systems as "personal mainframes". [16] [17] [3] [18] Their original target market was designers and engineers running scientific and technical applications, including computer-aided design, computer imaging and animation, and scientific research. [17] [19] [8] [20] A significant customer was Pacific Data Images, who switched from DEC VAXen to Ridge 32s, reporting a doubling of performance. [20] [21]

In the early 1980s, the French government was negotiating cooperative technology agreements between French and foreign companies. Also around this time, Jacques Stern, newly installed Director and CEO of Groupe Bull, became interested in adding RISC-based products to his company's offerings. [22] [23] Bull finalized an agreement to share technologies with both Convergent Technologies and Ridge Computers. [24] [5]

Around September 1985, Ridge named Robert J. Kunze, of Hambrecht & Quist Group and Hambrecht & Quist Venture Partners, to their Board of Directors. [25]

In the mid-1980s Ridge began to experience financial difficulties. In early 1986 the company was refinanced, receiving US$1,000,000 out of a planned US$10,000,000 from Hambrecht & Quist, and Groupe Bull. Bob O. Evans, a general partner in Hambrecht & Quist, was appointed chief executive officer. [26] [22]

In mid-1986, Ridge launched an Academic discount program in the UK similar to a program they had already established in the US. [27]

In 1987, Ridge and Apollo Computer entered into a joint marketing agreement that promoted a hybrid configuration of Apollo workstations networked to a Ridge supermini. [28] [29]

By the late 1980s Ridge realized that unless they implemented their architecture in Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) semiconductor technology, it would become uncompetitive. While some experimental CPUs were produced using gate array technology from Fujitsu, no VLSI-based systems were shipped. [3]

In early 1988, Ridge underwent a restructuring that saw a 45% reduction in personnel, Michael Preletz installed as CEO, and a new focus on commercial sales, while delivery of the new CPU for the 5100 model was further delayed. [30] Ridge was dissolved in April 1990. [31]

Reports of the number of systems sold by Ridge Computers vary from four hundred to six hundred units. Several hundred others were manufactured and sold under license by Bull. The total system count has been estimated to have been one thousand systems. [31] [3]

Although not a product of Ridge Computers, the Cerberus multiprocessor simulator used a processor model with an instruction set architecture derived from that of the Ridge 32's CPU. [32]

People

At their peak, Ridge employed about one hundred fifty people. [3] The founders and some former employees are listed below:

Founders

Other staff

Also at Ridge in some capacity were Doug Klein, Dana Craig, and David Marlin Hanttula. [53] Klein was one of three that left Ridge to establish NCD. [35]

Products

Ridge Operating System (ROS)

Early Ridge Computers systems ran the Ridge Operating System (ROS). ROS is a message-passing operating system (OS) with inexpensive processes and virtual memory. [65] Its internal structure is significantly different from that of Unix. [16] [66] The ROS kernel and that of the related Groupe Bull SPS 9 OS were described as microkernels by the developers who worked on them. [67] [47] The long-term goal was to provide a distributed system with full network transparency. [68]

The basic operating system comprises a small kernel, originally only 8 KB in size, which handles memory management, interprocess communications, and interrupt handling, with other functions provided by a set of server processes. The User Monitor server process presented a Unix-compatible interface to user processes, and the Directory Manager and Volume Manager emulated the Unix file system. [65] Collectively these services were called a Unix compatibility layer. [16] ROS incorporated features from both Unix System V and BSD universes. [19]

One assessment reported poor performance when running ROS in multiuser mode. [16] A paper by Basart identified issues with how ROS handled programs written for a Unix environment, particularly how the OS handled Unix's process fork and kill. Suggested improvements included moving the file system into the kernel, and revising the message primitives used by ROS. [65] Later even the founders saw ROS as a liability in the market. [3]

By 1987 Ridge began to offer a standard version of Unix that had been ported to the Ridge architecture by Bull. This operating system, called RX/V on Ridge-branded systems, eventually supplanted ROS on most Ridge models. [60] [69]

Ridge 32

The original Ridge 32 (or Ridge Thirty Two) system was announced by the third quarter of 1982. [70] It shipped with Ridge's V1 CPU design, development name Waterfall. [71] [3] This processor was partitioned into separate integer, memory management, and floating point units, each with a set of their own registers. [12] [60] Implemented in bit-slice technology, the architecture supported instruction lengths of 16, 32, and 48 bits. [72] [12]

Ridge 32C

The updated Ridge 32C was released in 1984. It could support from one to four users. [19]

Ridge 32S

The Ridge 32S was a single-user system released in 1984, slightly after the 32C. [19] It received a revised V2 CPU board set. [71]

Ridge 32/1x0, 32/3x0, 32/5x0

In 1985, Ridge released the 32/1x0 and 32/3x0 lines, which included the 32/110, 32/130, 32/310, and 32/330 models. [73] [74] The Ridge 32/530 was released in 1986. [17]

Ridge 32 Turbo RX

In mid- to late-1987, the Ridge 32 Turbo RX model replaced the 32/1x0 and 32/3x0 lines. [60] [69]

Server/RT

Ridge's Server/RT was released in March 1986. [75] [52] It was intended for hybrid networks where the Server/RT provided file and processing services to a group of IBM PC workstations.

Ridge 3200

The Ridge 3200 series was announced in May 1986, with models that could support up to 64 users. [60] The line included the Ridge 3200/90, and 3200/95. [69] These systems used the Headwall CPU. [3]

Ridge 5100

The Ridge 5100 system was announced in September 1987, and was expected to ship in February 1988. The 5100 was to use a new VLSI-based CPU. [76] [77] Ridge called the 5100 their fourth generation RISC system. [12] It was expected to support up to 128 users, and provide performance of 14 MIPS. [78]

The CPU for the 5100 was developed under the name Project Sunrise, and was to be a VLSI CPU implemented in Fujitsu gate arrays. In March 1987, Ridge announced that it had obtained financing for Sunrise. Performance of the early chips were disappointing. In December 1987, Ridge also proposed several architectural modifications that included an increase in the number of registers, the extension of addressing to 64 bits, and fixed-length instructions. The Sunrise CPU never shipped. [3] [16]

Groupe Bull

Its original agreement with Ridge, signed in April 1984, granted Bull a license to build and sell Ridge-based systems. These would be produced by Bull-SEMS, Groupe Bull's minicomputer division, at their factory in Echrollyes near Grenoble, France, and sold as the SPS 9 series. Under the terms of the agreement, Bull made a capital investment in Ridge, and received a seat on Ridge's board of directors. [3] [22] [23] [79] [80] [81] [82] [83] [84]

In October 1984, Bull acquired 11% of Ridge. Sales of the SPS 9 started in December of the same year. [85] [86]

The first models included the SPS 9/40 and SPS 9/60 running ROS. [87] [88] Later models included the SPS 9/400, SPS 9/600, SPS 9/800, and 9/830. [69] [89]

Bull did an in-house port of a version of Unix SystemV with the BSD 4.2 extensions to the Ridge architecture. They called the resulting operating system SPIX, and began selling it on their SPS 9 systems. It was sold on Ridge-branded systems as RX/V. [60] [69] [90]

By September 1987, Bull ownership of Ridge had risen to just under 20%. [60] In early 1988, Bull's remaining SPS model was renamed the DPX 5000. [90]

At the same time that Ridge was starting work on the Sunrise VLSI CPU, Bull's Research Department formed a group with Jean-Michel Pernot to develop a next-generation Ridge-compatible CPU called Aurore. The Aurore project was cancelled in March 1987, after Ridge announced that they had obtained financing for their Sunrise CPU. The porting effort that Bull faced to accommodate Ridge's proposed architectural changes in the Sunrise CPU, and concerns about the relationship between Ridge, Bull, and Ridge's compiler supplier resulted in Bull deciding to pivot away from the Ridge architecture. [16] [86]

Software and applications

Some software packages and specialized applications either developed for or hosted on Ridge and Bull-SEMS SPS 9 computers are listed below:

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