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In 1968, DEC was developing a PDP machine that would be based on 8-bit bytes instead of 6-bit characters.
The unproduced 21464 or EV8 would have been the first to include simultaneous multithreading, but this version was canceled after the sale of DEC to Compaq.
CompuServe offered to license the design for its KL power supply to DEC for free if DEC would promise that any new KL purchased by CompuServe would have the more efficient power supply installed.
* The overhead in code size required for reference counting is very small ( typically a single LOCK INC or LOCK DEC instruction, which ensures atomicity in any environment ), and no separate thread of control is needed for collection as would be needed for a tracing garbage collector.
It was not long until it became clear that DEC was once again entering the 36-bit business with what would become the PDP-10.
However, the ability to synthesize logic turned out to be limited, as the simulator output assumed that the design would be reduced to practice using those same DEC RTM style PDP-16 modules.
ARDC is credited with the first major venture capital success story when its 1957 investment of $ 70, 000 in Digital Equipment Corporation ( DEC ) would be valued at over $ 355 million after the company's initial public offering in 1968 ( representing a return of over 500 times on its investment and an annualized rate of return of 101 %).
In the TOPS-10 operating system ( for the DEC PDP-10 computer ), the command was used to invoke the TECO editor to create a file ; if given the file name argument, so that the command was, it would pause and respond before creating the file.
ARDC is credited with the first trick when its 1957 investment of $ 70, 000 in Digital Equipment Corporation ( DEC ) would be valued at over $ 355 million after the company's initial public offering in 1968 ( representing a return of over 1200 times on its investment and an annualized rate of return of 101 %).
When Borland eventually sold its Quattro Pro and Paradox products to Novell, where they would be joined with Word Perfect in an attempt to match Microsoft Office, Borland was left with InterBase, which Esber had purchased in the late 1980s and had its origins as a derivative of the RDB database work at DEC. Borland's ongoing strategy was to refocus its development tools on the corporate market with client – server applications, so Interbase fitted in as a low-end tool and a good generic SQL database for prototyping.
Eventually all of these ideas would come together to create the OpenGL ++ effort, along with Intel, IBM and DEC.
In it, he stated that if DEC and IBM would provide $ 50M of funding, then MIT faculty would make the effort to integrate the thousands of PC's, workstations, and minicomputers associated with the grant into its educational program.
When UNIX / 32V was ported to the ( then new ) 32-bit DEC VAX, computing on the Unix platform became feasible for S. In late 1979, S was ported from GCOS to UNIX, which would become the new primary platform.
For DEC, none of the three would be favorably received, and the industry instead standardized on Intel 8088-based IBM PC compatibles which were all binary program compatible with each other.
The failure of DEC to gain a significant foothold in the high-volume PC market would be the beginning of the end of the computer hardware industry in New England, as nearly all computer companies located there were focused on minicomputers, from DEC to Data General, Wang, Prime, Computervision and Honeywell.
The competition among minicomputer vendors would prove to be a turning point in Shannon's career, as eventual mergers led to his DEC newsletter shifting its focus to Compaq ( later, HP-Compaq ).

DEC and later
DEC later re-branded all of the models in the 36-bit series as the " DECsystem-10 ", and PDP-10s are generally referred to by the model of their CPU, like " KA10 ".
The Eclipse family of systems was later introduced with an extended upwardly compatible instruction set, and the MV-series further extended the Eclipse into a 32-bit architecture to compete with the DEC VAX.
" Much of the TMRC's jargon was later imported into early computing culture, because the club started using a DEC PDP-1 and applied its local model railroad slang in this computing context.
The original MUMPS system was, like Unix a few years later, built on a spare DEC PDP-7.
Many Mesa programmers and developers left Xerox in 1985 ; some of them went to DEC Systems Research Center where they used their experience with Mesa in the design of Modula-2 +, and later of Modula-3.
The original DEC StrongARM team eventually split into two MIPS-based start-ups: SiByte which produced the SB-1250, one of the first high-performance MIPS-based systems-on-a-chip ( SOC ); while Alchemy Semiconductor ( later acquired by AMD ) produced the Au-1000 SoC for low-power applications.
DEC later ported Tenex to the KL10, enhanced it considerably, and named it TOPS-20, forming the DECSYSTEM-20 line.
The leaked Zork source code was later used by Bob Supnik, a programmer from Digital Equipment Corporation, to create a Fortran IV port, which allowed the game to run on the smaller DEC PDP-11.
The PDP-11 used a similar method, but DEC later added an optional read-only memory for the PDP-11 that stored a bootstrap program of up to 32 words ( 64 bytes ).
The router was later moved to the Palo Alto Internet Exchange, or PAIX, which was developed and operated by Digital Equipment Corporation ( DEC ).
Maclisp ran on DEC PDP-6 / 10 computers, initially only on ITS, but later under all the other PDP-10 operating systems.
Servers use those processors and other readily available non-x86 processor choices, including the Sun Microsystems UltraSPARC, Fujitsu SPARC64 III and later, SGI MIPS, Intel Itanium, Hewlett Packard PA-RISC, Hewlett-Packard ( merged with Compaq which acquired first Digital Equipment Corporation ) DEC Alpha, IBM POWER and Apple Computer PowerPC ( specifically G4 and G5 series, as well as earlier PowerPC 604 and 604e series ) processors.
As a matter of policy, DEC did not update PA1050 to support later TOPS-10 additions except where required by DEC software.
Finally, CompuServe developed its own packet switching network, implemented on DEC PDP-11 minicomputers acting as network nodes that were installed throughout the US ( and later, in other countries ) and interconnected.
A year later, DEC donated the engineering prototype PDP-1 machine to MIT.
Based on ULA chip K1801VP1-035 ( and later on K1801VP1-065 ), the adapter was compatible to DEC DL-11 and KL-11 serial interfaces, but without modem control bits.
Although InterBase's implementation is much more similar to the system described by Reed in his MIT dissertation than any other database that existed at the time and Starkey knew Bernstein from his previous position at the Computer Corporation of America and later at DEC, Starkey has stated that he arrived at the idea of multiversion concurrency control independently.
Armando Stettner stayed at DEC and later conceived of and started the Ultrix project.
Its design was heavily influenced by work on the Modula-2 + language in use at SRC and at the Acorn Computers Research Center ( ARC, later ORC when Olivetti bought out Acorn ) at the time, which was the language in which the operating system for the DEC Firefly multiprocessor VAX workstation was written and in which the Acorn Compiler for Acorn Modula-2 Extended Language ( CAMEL ) at ARC for the ARX operating system project of ARM based Acorn Archimedes range of computers were written.
** WAITS ( SAIL, Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, time-sharing system for DEC PDP-6 and PDP-10, later TOPS-10 )
** TENEX ( Bolt, Beranek and Newman for DEC systems, later TOPS-20 )
** Unics ( later Unix ) ( AT & T, initially on DEC computers )
DEC remained in Maynard until 1990 when it was purchased by Compaq, which was itself later bought out by Hewlett Packard in 2002.

DEC and popular
As a result of its free availability, knowledge of BASIC became relatively widespread ( for a computer language ) and BASIC was implemented by a number of manufacturers, becoming fairly popular on newer minicomputers like the DEC PDP series and the Data General Nova.
MUMPS was developed with the support of a government research grant, and so MUMPS was released to the public domain ( no longer a requirement for grants ), and was soon ported to a number of other systems including the popular DEC PDP-8, the Data General Nova and the DEC PDP-11 and the Artronix PC12 minicomputer.
The popular typesetting system TeX by Donald E. Knuth was written in WEB, the original literate programming system, based on DEC PDP-10 Pascal, while applications like Total Commander, Skype and Macromedia Captivate were written in Delphi ( Object Pascal ).
The Fortran version of Dungeon was widely available on DEC VAXes, being one of the most popular items distributed by DECUS.
It was somewhat similar in spirit to ( but not compatible with ) the popular DEC VAX minicomputer instruction set.
The RTM's product never really took off commercially and DEC stopped marketing them in the mid-1980s, as new techniques and in particular VLSI became more popular.
Later DEC computers, such as their VAX systems, were also popular platforms on which to run Unix ; the first port to VAX, UNIX / 32V, was finished in 1978 ( the VAX was only released in October 1977 ).
Clem is one of the first " computer hackers " mentioned in pop culture, and his dialog with the fair's computer includes messages found in the DEC PDP-10, a popular mainframe computer at the time.
However the DEC VAX was also a very popular front-end.

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