Digital Equipment, which had twice as many employees as Compaq, has been a leading company in the previous generation of computing during the 1970s and early 1980s but it had struggled since then.

He returned the year after on December 29, 1982, for 1999 Tour ( other dates include: January 10 – 11, 13-14 & 16-17, 1985, on Purple Rain Tour, November 27, 1988, for Lovesexy Tour & December 31, 1997, on Jam Of The Year Tour-it has then been renamed Compaq Center ).

The Arena Operating Company entered into a five-year, $ 900, 000 per year deal with then Houston-based Compaq Computer Corporation to change the name of the venue from The Summit to Compaq Center, keeping that name even after the acquisition of Compaq by Hewlett-Packard in 2002 ( there was another arena named the Compaq Center in San Jose, California around this time, but has since been renamed the HP Pavilion ).

It was pursued once again in the mid-90s for the Alpha product line, but then abandoned due to the fragmentation of the company and subsequent sale to Compaq.

He worked at the Cambridge Research Labs of Compaq ( and then Hewlett-Packard ) from 2001 until 2005 when the lab closed down.

The HP 3000 was one of the last proprietary minicomputer systems whose manufacture was curtailed by its vendor, outlasting the PDP-11-descended Digital Equipment Corporation VAX, which was acquired by Compaq and then ultimately by Hewlett-Packard.

He joined Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers in 1980, and since then, has directed venture capital funding to some of the most successful technology companies in the world including Compaq, Netscape, Symantec, Sun Microsystems, drugstore. com, Amazon. com, Intuit, Macromedia and Google, as well as Friendster, GO Corp., and others.

It began at DEC, which was bought by Compaq, who then merged with HP.

Shannon began to publish a newsletter in 1994, Shannon Knows DEC, which eventually became Shannon Knows Compaq, after the firm's acquisition, and then Shannon Knows HPC.

In response, a group of PC manufacturers ( the " Gang of Nine "), led by Compaq, created a new bus, which was named the Extended ( or Enhanced ) Industry Standard Architecture, or " EISA ".

For servers the technical limitations of the old ISA were too great, and in late 1988 the " Gang of Nine ", led by Compaq, announced a rival high performance bus-Extended Industry Standard Architecture ( EISA ).

HP's offer was regarded by analysts to be overvaluing Compaq, due to Compaq's shaky financial performance in the past recent years ( there were rumors that it could run out of money in 12 months and be forced to cease business operations had it stayed independent ), as well as Compaq's own more conservative valuation of its assets.

Plus there were significant cultural differences between HP and Compaq ; which made decisions by consensus and rapid autocratic styles, respectively.

HP's Jornada PDAs were replaced by Compaq iPAQ PDAs, which were renamed HP iPAQ.

At the time of their 2002 merger, Compaq and HP were the second and third largest PC manufacturers, so their combination made them number one.

The first EISA computers to hit the market were the Compaq Deskpro 486 and the SystemPro.

Because of this uncertainty, IBM machines were sold without Windows 95, while Compaq, HP, and other indulgent companies sold machines with Windows 95 from day one.

The two early leaders in this last strategy were both start-up companies: Columbia Computers and Compaq.

However, the integration of DOS into Windows 95 was the masterstroke: not only were the other operating system vendors frozen out, Microsoft could now require computer manufacturers to comply with its demands on pain of higher prices ( as when it required IBM to stop actively marketing OS / 2 or else pay more than twice as much for Windows 95 as its competitor Compaq ) or by withholding " Designed for Windows 95 " endorsement ( which was regarded as an essential hardware marketing tool ).

The forerunners of the desktop replacement were the portable computers of the early-to-mid 1980s, such as the Osborne I, Kaypro II, the Compaq Portable and the Commodore Executive 64 ( SX-64 ) computers.

The iPAQ was developed by Compaq based on the SA-1110 " Assabet " and SA-1111 " Neponset " reference boards that were engineered by a StrongARM development group located at Digital Equipment Corporation's Hudson Massachusetts facility.

For a time, a commercial compiler called CM3 maintained by one of the chief implementors prior at DEC SRC who was hired before DEC being sold to Compaq, an integrated development environment called Reactor and an extensible Java Virtual Machine ( licensed in binary and source formats and buildable with Reactor ) were offered by Critical Mass, Inc., but that company ceased active operations in 2000 and gave some of the sources of its products to elego Software Solutions GmbH.

It also competed against faster portables based on the Intel 80286 that offered optional hard drives, from companies such as Compaq, and laptops from companies such as Toshiba and Zenith that were lighter and offered similar specifications, sometimes at half the price.

Other key points in early history were various OEM arrangements with companies like Compaq, 3Com, Diamond Multimedia, and the Sabre Network.

The length of the agreement was significant, because in 2003 the lease that Arena Operating Company held on Compaq Center would expire, and the tenants of the building were lobbying vigorously for the construction of a new downtown venue to replace the aging and undersized arena.

Original contributors were AMP Incorporated, Compaq Computers, Sun Microsystems, and Vixel Corporation.

The US operations in particular were at loss due in particular to price war in this market dominated by Compaq, IBM, and HP.

The first PC operating systems to integrate such technology were Compaq DOS 3. 31 ( via CEMM ) and Windows / 386 2. 1, both released in 1988.

" Johnston described how corporations were paying less in taxes, even as individuals were paying more, with even well-known companies like Colgate-Palmolive, Compaq Computer and United Parcel Service engaging in " what the courts called shams.

adopted by most of the operating systems that were sold by the former Digital Equipment Corporation ( which has since been acquired by Compaq which itself was acquired by Hewlett-Packard ).

Home games were played at the Compaq Center.

In the late 1990s Compaq donated the contents of the DEC internal archives to The Computer Museum History Center.

In the late 1990s, established companies like IBM and Compaq had microtransaction divisions, and research on micropayments and micropayment standards was performed at Carnegie Mellon and by the World Wide Web Consortium.

In late 2003, the church signed a long-term lease with the city of Houston to acquire the Compaq Center, a 29-year-old former sports arena.

Part way along the B815 road is a computer factory ; which was built in the late 1980s by Compaq Computers.

The Aptiva never managed to recapture IBM's early 1980s PC dominance from Compaq, Dell, or HP.

When Compaq introduced the first PC based on Intel's new 80386 microprocessor, the Compaq Deskpro 386, in 1986, it marked the first CPU change to the PC platform that was not initiated by IBM.

The first personal computer to make use of the 80386 was designed and manufactured by Compaq and marked the first time a fundamental component in the IBM PC compatible de facto-standard was updated by a company other than IBM.

The first company to design and manufacture a PC based on the Intel 80386 was Compaq.

CEMM, for Compaq Expanded Memory Manager was the first so-called PC " memory manager " for Intel 80386 CPUs, able to transform " XMS " extended memory into " EMS " expanded memory by using the virtual memory features and the virtual 8086 mode of the CPU.

The ability to quickly update products without a hardware respin was demonstrated in 2002 with an in-the-field upgrade ( a download ) to enhance CPU performance of the Crusoe based HP Compaq TC1000 tablet PC.

In 1986, Compaq was the first vendor to ship a PC compatible computer with a 386 CPU, the Deskpro 386, and it was natural for them to develop solutions leveraging the specific features of their new hardware and in this case allowing existing EMS-compatible DOS programs to access all the memory.