SuperStar Multi-User System is Just Right

Bromcom - initially known as Bromley Computer Consultancy Ltd - launched its SuperStar multi-user system at the beginning of 1984[source: https://archive.org/stream/PracticalComputing1984February02/Practical%20Computing%201984%20February%2002_djvu.txt].

Running a 16-bit host processor with the company's own IMPOS operating system, the SuperStar was a multi-user system in the style at the time where each user had their own separate processor - which could support CP/M, MS-DOS or Xenix - running in the host machine, which was accessed via a dedicated terminal. Only disk resources and printers were shared.

The SuperStar could support up to sixteen users in this fashion, each with up to 1MB of RAM.

At apparently half the cost of a similar minicomputer, the entry-level two-user system, with a 10MB Winchester hard drive and two terminals, retailed for £5,975 - about [[5975|1984]] in [[now]]. Additional users could be added for an additional £995 ([[995|1984]]) per instance.

Bromcom is one of the very few computer companies of the era which, as of 2025, still survives, albeit as a cloud-based schools MIS provider[source: https://bromcom.com/].