High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Atlas Computer was a joint development between the University of Manchester, Ferranti, and Plessey. Officially commissioned in 1962, it was one of the world's first supercomputers, considered to be the most powerful computer in the world at that time. It was said that whenever Atlas went offline half of the United Kingdom's computer capacity was lost. It was a second-generation machine, using germanium transistors rather than vacuum tubes. Two other Atlas machines were built: one for British Petroleum and the University of London, and one for the Atlas Computer Laboratory at Chilton near Oxford. A derivative system was built by Ferranti for Cambridge University, called the Titan, or Atlas 2. It had a different memory organisation, and ran a time-sharing operating system developed by Cambridge Computer Laboratory.

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