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In the same year ( 1964 ), Digital Equipment Corporation ( DEC ) introduced another influential computer aimed at the scientific and research markets, the PDP-8.
Until that time, software was bundled with the hardware by Original equipment manufacturers ( OEMs ) such as Data General, Digital Equipment and IBM.
; Vax Common Lisp: Digital Equipment Corporation's implementation that ran on VAX systems running VMS or ULTRIX
* Digital Linear Tape, a magnetic tape cartridge data storage technology introduced by Digital Equipment Corporation in 1984
* Digital UNIX / Tru64 UNIX ( originally Digital Equipment Corporation, now Hewlett-Packard )
* OpenVMS ( originally Digital Equipment Corporation, now Hewlett-Packard )
Digital Equipment Corporation ( DEC ) further reduced cost for mass-produced minicomputers, and mapped peripherals into the memory bus, so that the input and output devices appeared to be memory locations.
In 1998, Compaq acquired Digital Equipment Corporation for a then-industry record of $ 9 billion USD.
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.
At the same time, Compaq, through its acquisitions of the Digital Equipment Corporation last year and Tandem Computer in 1997, has tried to become a major systems company, like I. B. M.
Digital Equipment Corporation should not be confused with the unrelated companies Digital Research, Inc or Western Digital ( despite the latter manufacturing the LSI-11 chipsets used in DEC's low end PDP-11 / 03 computers ).
Edson de Castro was the Product Manager at Digital Equipment Corporation ( DEC ) of their pioneering PDP-8, a 12-bit computer generally considered by most to be the first true minicomputer.
The fourth founder, Herbert Richman, had been a salesman for Fairchild Semiconductor and knew the others through his contacts with Digital Equipment.
Paul Vixie started maintaining it in 1988 while working for Digital Equipment Corporation.
Alpha, originally known as Alpha AXP, is a 64-bit reduced instruction set computer ( RISC ) instruction set architecture ( ISA ) developed by Digital Equipment Corporation ( DEC ), designed to replace the 32-bit VAX complex instruction set computer ( CISC ) ISA and its implementations.
He convinced Digital Equipment Corporation ( DEC ), Intel, and Xerox to work together to promote Ethernet as a standard.
The term foobar was propagated through computer science circles in the 1960s and early 1970s by system manuals from Digital Equipment Corporation.
The main architect of the system was Dave Cutler, one of the chief architects of VMS at Digital Equipment Corporation ( later acquired by Compaq, now part of Hewlett-Packard ).
The new area was led by Allison Mankin and Scott Bradner, and had a directorate with 15 engineers from diverse backgrounds for direction-setting and preliminary document review: The working-group members were J. Allard ( Microsoft ), Steve Bellovin ( AT & T ), Jim Bound ( Digital Equipment Corporation ), Ross Callon ( Wellfleet ), Brian Carpenter ( CERN ), Dave Clark ( MIT ), John Curran ( NEARNET ), Steve Deering ( Xerox ), Dino Farinacci ( Cisco ), Paul Francis ( NTT ), Eric Fleischmann ( Boeing ), Mark Knopper ( Ameritech ), Greg Minshall ( Novell ), Rob Ullmann ( Lotus ), and Lixia Zhang ( Xerox ).
* 1998 – Compaq Computer pays $ 9 billion for Digital Equipment Corporation in the largest high-tech acquisition.

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* Seagate Technology and Western Digital Corporation in the hard disk drive market ( after the acquisition of Samsung's hard drive division by the former and Hitachi Global Storage Technologies by the latter )
Worried that a new computer company would find it difficult to arrange further financing, Doriot suggested the fledgling company change its business plan to focus less on computers, and even change their name from " Digital Computer Corporation ".
Starting in the late 1970s to the early 1980s, several types of video production equipment were introduced, such as time base correctors ( TBC ) and digital video effects ( DVE ) units ( one of the former being the Thomson-CSF 9100 Digital Video Processor, an internally all-digital full-frame TBC introduced in 1980, and two of the latter being the Ampex ADO, and the Nippon Electric Corporation ( NEC ) DVE ).
* 1997 – Digital Equipment Corporation files antitrust charges against chipmaker Intel.

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ATM was developed to meet the needs of the Broadband Integrated Services Digital Network, as defined in the late 1980s.
At the time of the design of ATM, 155 Mbit / s Synchronous Digital Hierarchy ( SDH ) with 135 Mbit / s payload was considered a fast optical network link, and many Plesiochronous Digital Hierarchy ( PDH ) links in the digital network were considerably slower, ranging from 1. 544 to 45 Mbit / s in the USA, and 2 to 34 Mbit / s in Europe.
Cellular Digital Packet Data ( CDPD ) was a wide-area mobile data service which used unused bandwidth normally used by AMPS mobile phones between 800 and 900 MHz to transfer data.
In 1975, one year after an agreement between Digital and Intersil, the Intersil 6100 chip was launched, effectively a PDP-8 on a chip.
This was a way to allow PDP-8 software to be run even after the official end-of-life announcement for the Digital PDP-8 product line.
Digital Research produced a compatible variant known as DR DOS, which was eventually taken over ( after a buyout of Digital Research ) by Novell, then by Caldera.
Initially named " Digital European Cordless Telephone " at its launch by CEPT in November 1987, following a suggestion by Enrico Tosato of Italy, its name was soon changed to " Digital European Cordless Telecommunications " to reflect its broader range of application, including data services.
Digital video was first introduced commercially in 1986 with the Sony D-1 format, which recorded an uncompressed standard definition component video signal in digital form instead of the high-band analog forms that had been commonplace until then.
Digital Cinema Initiatives ( DCI ) was formed in March 2002 as a joint project of many motion picture studios ( Disney, Fox, MGM, Paramount, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Universal, and Warner Bros. Studios ) to develop a system specification for digital cinema.
The development of Digital Cinema was a broad-based industry project involving many companies and development teams.
On 2002, the first secure encrypted digital cinema feature was Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones by Cinecomm Digital Cinema ( then led by Russell J. Wintner ).
The First Digital Cinema Network enabling digital delivery directly to the theaters was built by Digital Cinema Solutions in 2002.
Following MOTOWN, Digital Cinema Solutions electronically distributed over a virtual private network close to 100 films until it was sold in 2005.
In January 2004, it was announced that the screenplay he wrote for his novels Ilium and Olympos would be made into a film by Digital Domain and Barnet Bain Films, with Simmons acting as executive producer.
DPNSS was developed in the early 1980s by BT, or its forerunner, Post Office Telecommunications in recognition that the emerging Digital Private Circuit Primary Rate product ' Megastream ' had to address the market for both data and voice, the latter being significantly greater because of the market for PBXs.
Digital considered using a combined register file, but a split register file was determined to be better as it enabled two-chip implementations to have a register file located on each chip and integer-only implementations to omit the floating-point register file containing the floating point registers.
Digital concluded that 32 registers was more suitable as it required less die space, which improved clock frequencies.
* According to the Digital Britain Report, 494 exabytes of data was transferred across the globe on June 15, 2009.

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