About Wild Hare Computer Systems

We worked with the very first Data General Nova computers in the late 1960s in a variety of advanced biomedical research and scientific environments, and have offered DG-related products and services ever since then.

We also work with museums, universities and collectors worldwide to preserve Data General's significant part of computer history.

About Wild Hare

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Why Wild Hare?

Our broad range of experience includes specialized commercial and military consulting, operating system design, hardware products and productivity enhancers focused on the Data General marketplace.  We have worked with and created products for almost every operating system released by Data General and even introduced a line of our own workstations - called "Hare Brains" - in the early 1980s.

Regardless of the market, product or service, we create guaranteed solutions for clients that meet their current and future needs.

Product Summary

Sample Products

We have offered products and tools in addition to our services and consulting throughout the decades, such as ...

Date

Product Name

Description

1971

8-Sim

PDP-8 simulator for the Nova

1975

MTX

independent RDOS-like operating system for Novas

1976

VMS

Virtual Machine Operating System for Nova and Eclipse systems

1977

META

Screen Compiler for DG Business BASIC

1978

TSS

Time-Sharing System for DG's RDOS

1979

EUNUCHS

UNIX-like Kernel for Nova and Eclipse RDOS systems

1980

Enhancer Boards

performance enhancing hardware for RDOS, AOS and AOS/VS

1982

Hare Brain

Wild Hare's own multi-user 32-bit workstations

1982

Hare/Net

networking between DG computers and Hare Brain systems

1982

RDOS/Sim

Directly run Data General RDOS programs on open systems

1982

Choice!

Interactive COBOL runtime for open systems, DG-compatible

1988

Axis

open system ICOBOL compiler and development system

1992

Axis/VS

VS/COBOL and INFOS migration systems

1994

RAID

Advanced windowed COBOL debugger for open systems

1996

WH/Sort

compatible with DG's Sort/Merge with extensive new capabilities

2000

reNOVAte

directly runs Nova and Eclipse programs on open systems

2002

reGenerate

control DG and custom user hardware devices from modern PCs

2004

eMV

emulate DG 32-bit MV computers on open systems

2005

eMV/Enterprise

mega-user enterprise-level extensions for eMV

2009

reGenerate/PCI

enhanced control of DG hardware from PC

2011

Nova FPGA

Nova-on-a-Chip IP design

2014

MV as a Service

run MV programs "in the cloud"

2017

nFusion

replace aging DG disks, tapes and other peripherals with modern hardware technology

2019

neoNOVA

replace Nova CPUs in-chassis with modern hardware technology

2021

Open Source

open-source hardware and software projects

2022

DG Software Title

acquired ownership and title to legacy Data General software

Hobbyist License

created Data General software hobbyist license

Nova/Eclipse Emulators

Nova and Eclipse emulators released for hobbyist use on Windows and Linux platforms

on-line archives

software and documentation archives now on-line

2023

on-line Nova emulator

updates to on-line browser-based Nova emulator