<s>
Xylogics	B-Architecture
or	O
Xylogic	O
Systems	O
was	O
started	O
in	O
1971	O
by	O
three	O
former	O
NASA	O
employees	O
(	O
Laurence	O
Liebson	O
,	O
Robert	O
Bushkoff	O
and	O
Stephen	O
Rotman	O
)	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
By	O
1972	O
,	O
Xylogics	B-Architecture
had	O
grown	O
to	O
more	O
than	O
15	O
people	O
,	O
and	O
moved	O
to	O
Natick	O
,	O
MA	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
company	O
used	O
the	O
GRI	O
mini-computer	B-Architecture
,	O
and	O
custom	O
designed	O
many	O
circuit	O
boards	O
to	O
support	O
disk	O
drives	O
,	O
paper	O
tape	O
punches	O
and	O
readers	O
,	O
and	O
automatic	O
capture	O
of	O
newswire	O
service	O
feeds	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
1976	O
,	O
a	O
major	O
customer	O
of	O
Xylogics	B-Architecture
,	O
Dymo	O
Graphics	O
Systems	O
,	O
purchased	O
the	O
newspaper	O
product	O
line	O
and	O
hired	O
most	O
of	O
the	O
original	O
developers	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Dymo	O
Graphic	O
Systems	O
combined	O
their	O
typesetting	O
equipment	O
business	O
with	O
the	O
Xylogics	B-Architecture
editing	O
systems	O
,	O
and	O
by	O
1978	O
had	O
over	O
100	O
turnkey	O
typesetting	O
systems	O
in	O
use	O
worldwide	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Xylogics	B-Architecture
continued	O
building	O
disk	O
and	O
other	O
controllers	O
for	O
DEC	O
hardware	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
They	O
also	O
built	O
serial	B-Device
terminal	I-Device
servers	I-Device
from	O
4-port	O
to	O
72-port	O
units	O
under	O
the	O
product	O
name	O
Annex	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Xylogics	B-Architecture
was	O
acquired	O
by	O
Bay	O
Networks	O
in	O
December	O
1995	O
which	O
in	O
turn	O
was	O
acquired	O
by	O
Nortel	O
in	O
June	O
1998	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Xylogics	B-Architecture
was	O
located	O
in	O
Burlington	O
,	O
MA	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
Multibus	B-Protocol
based	O
Xylogics	B-Architecture
450	O
SMD	B-Architecture
and	O
Xylogics	B-Architecture
451	O
ESMD	O
disk	O
controllers	O
along	O
with	O
Interphase	O
Multibus	B-Protocol
SMD	B-Architecture
disk	O
controllers	O
were	O
significant	O
to	O
the	O
workstation	B-Device
and	O
minicomputer	B-Architecture
industry	O
during	O
the	O
1980s	O
as	O
a	O
low	O
cost	O
interface	O
the	O
low	O
cost	O
,	O
high	O
performance	O
,	O
high	O
capacity	O
SMD	B-Architecture
and	O
ESMD	O
disk	O
drives	O
available	O
at	O
the	O
time	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Sun-1	B-Device
,	O
Sun-2	B-Device
and	O
Sun-3	B-Device
servers	O
and	O
Silicon	O
Graphics	O
IRIS	O
,	O
HP/Apollo	O
all	O
used	O
Xylogics	B-Architecture
450	O
and	O
451	O
disk	O
controllers	O
.	O
</s>
