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'''Convex Computer Corporation''' was a [[computer]] [[hardware]] and [[software]] company that founded in [[1982]] by Bob Paluck and Steve Wallach. It was headquartered in [[Richardson, TXTexas]]. Convex was acquired by [[Hewlett-Packard Company]] in December [[1995]].

Convex developed hardware and software for the high performance computing market. The hardware was originally a [[vector processing]] architecture similar to other supercomputers[[supercomputer]]s of that time. Eventually Convex developed large [[parallel computing]] architectures based on [[RISC]] processors.