Exhibit 3(e)

                                                
                            CERTIFICATE OF AMENDMENT
                                       OF
                                    RESTATED
                          CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION
                                       OF
                            DATA GENERAL CORPORATION
                                                                        

     DATA GENERAL CORPORATION, a corporation organized and existing under and by
virtue  of  the  General   Corporation   Law  of  the  State  of  Delaware  (the
"Corporation"), DOES HEREBY CERTIFY:

         1. That at a meeting of the Board of Directors of the Corporation  held
on December 2,  1998, said Board of Directors adopted resolutions  proposing and
declaring  advisable a new proposed  Section A to Article FOURTH of the Restated
Certificate of Incorporation of the Corporation as follows:

         FOURTH.

                  A. Authorized Capital Stock. The total number of shares of all
         classes of stock which this  Corporation  shall have authority to issue
         is ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY-ONE MILLION (151,000,000)  shares,  consisting
         of ONE MILLION  (1,000,000)  shares of Preferred  Stock, par value $.01
         per share (hereinafter,  the "Preferred Stock"),  and ONE HUNDRED FIFTY
         MILLION  (150,000,000) shares of Common Stock, par value $.01 per share
         (hereinafter, the "Common Stock").

         2. That  thereafter,  pursuant to resolution of its Board of Directors,
the annual meeting of stockholders of said  Corporation was duly called and held
on January 27,  1999, at which meeting the necessary  number of  stockholders as
required by statute voted in favor of the amendment.

         3.  That  said  amendment  was  duly  adopted  in  accordance  with the
applicable  provisions of Sections 211 and 242 of the General Corporation Law of
Delaware, as amended.

         IN WITNESS WHEREOF,  DATA GENERAL  CORPORATION has caused its corporate
seal to be hereunto  affixed and this  certificate to be signed by its President
and attested by its Assistant Secretary this 28th day of January, 1999.

                                                     DATA GENERAL CORPORATION


                                                     By: /s/  Ronald L. Skates
                                                         President and
                                                         Chief Executive Officer

ATTEST:
/s/ James K. Jacobs                 
Assistant Secretary