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Dead IT giants: A top 10 of the fallen

Dead IT giants: A top 10 of the fallen

...as little more than a footnote in the annals of business technology. Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) DEC's PDP-8 may not look so small... Read more

19 November, 2010 by David Meyer
DEC's 40 years of innovation

DEC's 40 years of innovation

...Ken Olsen, founder of Digital Equipment Corporation, died on 6 February, aged 84. In the 40 years... Read more

12 February, 2011 by Rupert Goodwins

Ken Olsen, DEC co-founder, dies at 84

...Olsen, co-founder of the defining technology company of a bygone era, Digital Equipment Corporation, has died. He was 84. DEC co-founder Ken Olsen... Read more

8 February, 2011 by Tom Krazit
Dennis Ritchie, father of Unix and C, dies

Dennis Ritchie, father of Unix and C, dies

As one of the founders of modern computing, Dennis Ritchie's contributions to software are legendary within the industry, yet deserve to be known to all Read more

13 October, 2011 by Rupert Goodwins
Trite but right: Dull IT that made it big

Trite but right: Dull IT that made it big

...received any messages sent by any of the others. Metcalfe later convinced Digital Equipment Corporation, Intel and Xerox to promote Ethernet as a standard, and... Read more

11 December, 2010 by Matthew Broersma

A Year Ago: The Mitnick release - Is it over?

...1989, he suffered his first adult felony conviction for cracking computers at Digital Equipment Corporation and downloading source code. He served one year in federal... Read more

22 January, 2001 by Kevin Poulsen

The Mitnick release: Is it over?

...1989, he suffered his first adult felony conviction for cracking computers at Digital Equipment Corporation and downloading source code. He served one year in federal... Read more

21 January, 2000 by Kevin Poulsen

Digital broadens desktop range despite Compaq axe threat

Digital Equipment Corporation is to broaden its desktop PC line with a new... Read more

18 February, 1998 by Guy Matthews

Quarter of world online as internet turns 40

...case documented was a message from Guy Thuerk advertising the availability of Digital Equipment Corporation Computers, sent to 393 recipients on Arpanet in 1978. The... Read more

29 October, 2009 by Carly Newman
Microsoft researcher stores digital life

Microsoft researcher stores digital life

...Bell is no stranger to ambitious projects. A computer engineer, he joined Digital Equipment Corporation (Dec) now part of HP, in 1960 and is best... Read more

12 February, 2009 by Colin Barker
Engineering a career at the PC's creation

Engineering a career at the PC's creation

Chuck Thacker, who helped design the Alto personal computer and co-invented Ethernet, takes stock of a life on the front lines of computer invention Read more

5 July, 2007 by Charles Cooper
Photos: Iconic computer innards as art

Photos: Iconic computer innards as art

1974The KL10 processor from DEC (Digital Equipment Corporation), aka Digital, was significant in that it featured 386 microprogrammed... Read more

4 July, 2007 by ZDNet UK
Symantec Enterprise Vault: File System Archiving

Symantec Enterprise Vault: File System Archiving

...solution primarily for unstructured data. It was started as a project within Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) in 1997. This paper is designed to give technical... Read more

1 May, 2007

Linux kernel to include IPv6 firewall

...by old versions of the Novell NetWare operating system and DECnet, the Digital Equipment Corporation's network protocol. The IPv6 packet filter will not be... Read more

21 February, 2005 by Ingrid Marson

Start-up sees low-cost future in clusters

Katana Technology is to be renamed VirtuOS, and is going to release technology next year that could slash the cost of high-perfomance servers by up to 70 percent Read more

17 December, 2004 by Stephen Shankland

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