Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index A supermini, by definition, is "a minicomputer with high performance compared to ordinary minicomputers". The term was an invention used mainly to distinguish the emerging 32-bit minis from the classical 16-bit minicomputers. Reportedly coined by DEC at their VAX announcement in 1976, the term is now largely obsolete, but still remains of interest for students/researchers of computer history. Significant superminis Norsk Data Nord-5, first supermini, 1972 Norsk Data Nord-50, 1975 DEC VAX, 1978 Data General Eclipse MV/8000, 1980 Norsk Data ND-500, 1981 Norsk Data ND-570/CX, fastest supermini, 1983, at 7.1 Whetstone MIPS ELXSI 6400 1983 A supermini is also a class of car (see car classification). This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.