Floating Point Systems, Inc. (FPS), was a Beaverton, Oregon vendor of attached array processors and minisupercomputers.

The company was founded in 1970 by former Tektronix engineer Norm Winningstad,[1] with partners Tom Prints, Frank Bouton and Robert Carter.

Carter was a salesman for Data General Corp. who persuaded Bouton and Prince to leave Tektronix to start the new company.

I/O was also difficult, so the T-Series was discontinued, a mistake costing tens of millions of dollars that was nearly fatal to FPS.

Instead, it was replaced by the Cray Superserver 6400, (CS6400), which was derived indirectly from a collaboration between Sun Microsystems and Xerox PARC.

[4][5] Sun was then able to bring to market the follow-on to the CS6400 which Cray BSD was developing at the time, codenamed Starfire, launching it as the Ultra Enterprise 10000 multiprocessor server.