Honeywell 316

E24403

The Honeywell 316 is a 16-bit minicomputer introduced in the late 1960s, used widely for real-time control, industrial, and embedded applications.

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All labels observed (4)

Label Occurrences
Honeywell 316 canonical 2
Honeywell 200 series 1
Honeywell 316 CPU 1

Statements (49)

Predicate Object
instanceOf 16-bit computer
minicomputer
architectureType 16-bit architecture
bitWidth 16
computerFamily Honeywell 316 self-linksurface differs
surface form: Honeywell 200 series
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
dataPathWidth 16 bits
designedFor dedicated control tasks
on-line control
real-time applications
hasPeripheralSupportFor disk drives
magnetic tape drives
paper tape readers
printers
teletypes
instructionSetCompatibility Honeywell 200 series
instructionSetType fixed-word instruction set
introducedInDecade 1960s
introducedInYear 1969
mainMemoryTechnology magnetic core memory
manufacturer Honeywell
marketedAs low-cost minicomputer
marketSegment embedded computing
industrial computing
process control computing
memoryType core memory
notableCharacteristic widely used in real-time control applications
operatingSystemSupport monitor programs
real-time operating systems
packaging cabinet system
rack-mounted system
powerRequirement suitable for embedded installations
supports direct memory access
interrupts
real-time I/O
technologyEra second generation minicomputers
usedAs controller
embedded controller
front-end processor
usedFor data acquisition
embedded applications
industrial control
process control
real-time control
usedIn industrial plants
laboratory systems
military systems
telecommunications systems
wordSize 16 bits

How these facts were elicited

The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.

Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10.

# Requirements
- If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list.
- If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list.
- Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf".
- Do not get too wordy.
- Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Honeywell 316
Description of subject: The Honeywell 316 is a 16-bit minicomputer introduced in the late 1960s, used widely for real-time control, industrial, and embedded applications.

Referenced by (5)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

IMP hardwarePlatform Honeywell 316
Honeywell DDP-516 successorInRole Honeywell 316
Honeywell 316 computerFamily Honeywell 316 self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Honeywell 200 series
Honeywell 316 minicomputer family Honeywell 316
this entity surface form: Honeywell 316 series
Honeywell 316 minicomputer cpuType Honeywell 316
this entity surface form: Honeywell 316 CPU