Digital Equipment Corporation

Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), using the trademark Digital, was a major American company in the computer industry from the 1960s to the 1990s. ^[1]

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Acronym

An acronym is an abbreviation of a phrase that usually consists of the initial letter of each word in all caps with no punctuation.

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Ada (programming language)

Ada is a structured, statically typed, imperative, and object-oriented high-level programming language, inspired by Pascal and other languages.

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Addressing mode

Addressing modes are an aspect of the instruction set architecture in most central processing unit (CPU) designs.

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Alan Eustace

Robert Alan Eustace (born 1957) is an American computer scientist who served as Senior Vice President of Engineering and first Senior Vice President for Knowledge at Google until retiring in 2015.

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Alan Kotok

Alan Kotok (November 9, 1941 – May 26, 2006) was an American computer scientist known for his work at Digital Equipment Corporation (Digital, or DEC) and at the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).

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ALL-IN-1

ALL-IN-1 was an office automation product developed and sold by Digital Equipment Corporation in the 1980s.

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Alpha 21064

The Alpha 21064 is a microprocessor developed and fabricated by Digital Equipment Corporation that implemented the Alpha (introduced as the Alpha AXP) instruction set architecture (ISA).

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AlphaServer

AlphaServer is a series of server computers, produced from 1994 onwards by Digital Equipment Corporation, and later by Compaq and HP.

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AlphaStation

AlphaStation is the name given to a series of computer workstations, produced from 1994 onwards by Digital Equipment Corporation, and later by Compaq and HP.

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Altair 8800

The Altair 8800 is a microcomputer designed in 1974 by MITS and based on the Intel 8080 CPU.

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AltaVista

AltaVista was a web search engine established in 1995.

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The American Civil War (April 12, 1861 – May 26, 1865; also known by other names) was a civil war in the United States between the Union ("the North") and the Confederacy ("the South"), which was formed in 1861 by states that had seceded from the Union.

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American National Standards Institute

The American National Standards Institute (ANSI) is a private nonprofit organization that oversees the development of voluntary consensus standards for products, services, processes, systems, and personnel in the United States.

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American Research and Development Corporation

American Research and Development Corporation (ARDC) was a venture capital and private equity firm founded in 1946 by Georges Doriot, Ralph Flanders, Merrill Griswold, and Karl Compton.

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Amphenol

Amphenol Corporation is an American producer of electronic and fiber optic connectors, cable and interconnect systems such as coaxial cables.

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Analog-to-digital converter

In electronics, an analog-to-digital converter (ADC, A/D, or A-to-D) is a system that converts an analog signal, such as a sound picked up by a microphone or light entering a digital camera, into a digital signal.

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ANSI escape code

ANSI escape sequences are a standard for in-band signaling to control cursor location, color, font styling, and other options on video text terminals and terminal emulators.

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ARM architecture family

ARM (stylised in lowercase as arm, formerly an acronym for Advanced RISC Machines and originally Acorn RISC Machine) is a family of RISC instruction set architectures (ISAs) for computer processors.

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Arm Holdings

Arm Holdings plc (formerly an acronym for Advanced RISC Machines and originally Acorn RISC Machine) is a British semiconductor and software design company based in Cambridge, England, whose primary business is the design of central processing unit (CPU) cores that implement the ARM architecture family of instruction sets.

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ASCII

ASCII, an acronym for American Standard Code for Information Interchange, is a character encoding standard for electronic communication.

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Assabet Woolen Mill

The Assabet Woolen Mill was originally a textile factory complex founded by Amory Maynard in 1847 near the Assabet River in the northern part of what was then Sudbury, Massachusetts.

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AT&T Corporation

AT&T Corporation, commonly referred to as AT&T, an abbreviation for its former name, the American Telephone and Telegraph Company, was an American telecommunications company that provided voice, video, data, and Internet telecommunications and professional services to businesses, consumers, and government agencies.

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Babel Fish (website)

Yahoo! Babel Fish was a free Web-based machine translation service by Yahoo!.

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Banana connector

A banana connector (commonly banana plug for the male, banana jack (or socket) for the female) is a single-wire (one conductor) electrical connector used for joining wires to equipment.

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BEA Systems

BEA Systems, Inc. was a company that specialized in enterprise infrastructure software products, which was wholly acquired by Oracle Corporation on April 29, 2008.

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Bell Labs

Bell Labs is an American industrial research and scientific development company credited with the development of radio astronomy, the transistor, the laser, the photovoltaic cell, the charge-coupled device (CCD), information theory, the Unix operating system, and the programming languages B, C, C++, S, SNOBOL, AWK, AMPL, and others.

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Berkeley RISC

Berkeley RISC is one of two seminal research projects into reduced instruction set computer (RISC) based microprocessor design taking place under the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency VLSI Project.

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BIND

BIND is a suite of software for interacting with the Domain Name System (DNS).

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Brian Reid (computer scientist)

Brian Keith Reid (born 1949) is an American computer scientist.

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Burrows–Wheeler transform

The Burrows–Wheeler transform (BWT, also called block-sorting compression) rearranges a character string into runs of similar characters.

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Business plan

A business plan is a formal written document containing the goals of a business, the methods for attaining those goals, and the time-frame for the achievement of the goals.

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Butler Lampson

Butler W. Lampson FRS (born December 23, 1943) is an American computer scientist best known for his contributions to the development and implementation of distributed personal computing.

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Byte (magazine)

Byte (stylized as BYTE) was a microcomputer magazine, influential in the late 1970s and throughout the 1980s because of its wide-ranging editorial coverage.

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C (programming language)

C (pronounced – like the letter c) is a general-purpose programming language.

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Cabletron Systems

Cabletron Systems, Inc., was a manufacturer of networking computer equipment throughout the 1980s and 1990s primarily based in Rochester, New Hampshire, in the United States. Digital Equipment Corporation and Cabletron Systems are Defunct computer companies of the United States and Defunct computer hardware companies.

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Cambridge, Massachusetts

Cambridge is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States.

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Carnegie Mellon University

Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) is a private research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

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Cash cow

A cash cow is product or service that generates significant revenue over a long period of time for the company that sells it.

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Cisco

Cisco Systems, Inc. (using the trademark Cisco) is an American multinational digital communications technology conglomerate corporation headquartered in San Jose, California.

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Classful network

A classful network is an obsolete network addressing architecture used in the Internet from 1981 until the introduction of Classless Inter-Domain Routing (CIDR) in 1993.

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CNET

CNET (short for "Computer Network") is an American media website that publishes reviews, news, articles, blogs, podcasts, and videos on technology and consumer electronics globally.

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Collaborative software

Collaborative software or groupware is application software designed to help people working on a common task to attain their goals.

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Colorado Springs, Colorado

Colorado Springs is a city in and the county seat of El Paso County, Colorado, United States.

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Command-line interface

A command-line interface (CLI) is a means of interacting with a computer program by inputting lines of text called command-lines.

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Common Object Request Broker Architecture

The Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA) is a standard defined by the Object Management Group (OMG) designed to facilitate the communication of systems that are deployed on diverse platforms.

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Compaq

Compaq Computer Corporation (sometimes abbreviated to CQ prior to the 2007 rebranding) was an American information technology company founded in 1982 that developed, sold, and supported computers and related products and services. Digital Equipment Corporation and compaq are Defunct computer companies of the United States, Defunct computer hardware companies and Defunct computer systems companies.

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Compaq Contura

The Contura is a line of notebook-sized laptops produced by Compaq from 1992 to 1996.

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Compatible Time-Sharing System

The Compatible Time-Sharing System (CTSS) was the first general purpose time-sharing operating system.

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Complex instruction set computer

A complex instruction set computer (CISC) is a computer architecture in which single instructions can execute several low-level operations (such as a load from memory, an arithmetic operation, and a memory store) or are capable of multi-step operations or addressing modes within single instructions.

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Computer cluster

A computer cluster is a set of computers that work together so that they can be viewed as a single system.

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Computer hardware

Computer hardware includes the physical parts of a computer, such as the central processing unit (CPU), random access memory (RAM), motherboard, computer data storage, graphics card, sound card, and computer case.

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Computer History Museum

The Computer History Museum (CHM) is a museum of computer history, located in Mountain View, California.

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Computer module

A computer module is a selection of independent electronic circuits packaged onto a circuit board to provide a basic function within a computer.

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Computer multitasking

In computing, multitasking is the concurrent execution of multiple tasks (also known as processes) over a certain period of time.

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Computer network

A computer network is a set of computers sharing resources located on or provided by network nodes.

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Computer terminal

A computer terminal is an electronic or electromechanical hardware device that can be used for entering data into, and transcribing data from, a computer or a computing system.

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Copyright

A copyright is a type of intellectual property that gives its owner the exclusive legal right to copy, distribute, adapt, display, and perform a creative work, usually for a limited time.

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CP/M

CP/M, originally standing for Control Program/Monitor and later Control Program for Microcomputers, is a mass-market operating system created in 1974 for Intel 8080/85-based microcomputers by Gary Kildall of Digital Research, Inc. CP/M is a disk operating system and its purpose is to organize files on a magnetic storage medium, and to load and run programs stored on a disk.

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CP/M-86

CP/M-86 is a discontinued version of the CP/M operating system that Digital Research (DR) made for the Intel 8086 and Intel 8088.

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Cray T3D

The T3D (Torus, 3-Dimensional) was Cray Research's first attempt at a massively parallel supercomputer architecture.

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Credit union

A credit union is a member-owned nonprofit cooperative financial institution.

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Daniel W. Dobberpuhl

Daniel "Dan" William Dobberpuhl (March 25, 1945 – October 26, 2019) was an electrical engineer in the United States who led several teams of microprocessor designers.

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Data General

Data General Corporation was one of the first minicomputer firms of the late 1960s. Digital Equipment Corporation and Data General are Defunct computer companies based in Massachusetts, Defunct computer companies of the United States, Defunct computer hardware companies and Defunct computer systems companies.

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Data General Nova

The Data General Nova is a series of 16-bit minicomputers released by the American company Data General.

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Database

In computing, a database is an organized collection of data or a type of data store based on the use of a database management system (DBMS), the software that interacts with end users, applications, and the database itself to capture and analyze the data.

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Dave Cutler

David Neil Cutler Sr. (born March 13, 1942) is an American software engineer.

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DEC Alpha

Alpha (original name Alpha AXP) is a 64-bit reduced instruction set computer (RISC) instruction set architecture (ISA) developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC).

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DEC BATCH-11/DOS-11

BATCH-11/DOS-11, also known simply as DOS-11, is a discontinued operating system by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) of Maynard, Massachusetts.

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DEC MICA

MICA was the codename of the operating system developed for the DEC PRISM architecture.

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DEC PRISM

PRISM (Parallel Reduced Instruction Set Machine) was a 32-bit RISC instruction set architecture (ISA) developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC).

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DEC Professional (computer)

The Professional 325 (PRO-325), Professional 350 (PRO-350), and Professional 380 (PRO-380) are PDP-11 compatible microcomputers.

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DEC Systems Research Center

The Systems Research Center (SRC) was a research laboratory created by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) in 1984, in Palo Alto, California.

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DECmate

DECmate was the name of a series of PDP-8-compatible computers produced by the Digital Equipment Corporation in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

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DECnet

DECnet is a suite of network protocols created by Digital Equipment Corporation.

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DECserver

In computer networking, DECserver initially referred to a highly successful family of asynchronous console server / terminal server / print server products introduced by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) and later referred to a class of UNIX-variant application and file server products based upon the MIPS processor.

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DECstation

The DECstation was a brand of computers used by DEC, and refers to three distinct lines of computer systems—the first released in 1978 as a word processing system, and the latter (more widely known) two both released in 1989.

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DECSYSTEM-20

The DECSYSTEM-20 was a family of 36-bit Digital Equipment Corporation PDP-10 mainframe computers running the TOPS-20 operating system and was introduced in 1977.

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DECtalk

DECtalk was a speech synthesizer and text-to-speech technology developed by Digital Equipment Corporation in 1983, based largely on the work of Dennis Klatt at MIT, whose source-filter algorithm was variously known as KlattTalk or MITalk.

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DECtape

DECtape, originally called Microtape, is a magnetic tape data storage medium used with many Digital Equipment Corporation computers, including the PDP-6, PDP-8, LINC-8, PDP-9, PDP-10, PDP-11, PDP-12, and the PDP-15.

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DECUS

The Digital Equipment Computer Users' Society (DECUS) was an independent computer user group related to Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC).

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DECwriter

The DECwriter series was a family of computer terminals from Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC).

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Diablo Data Systems

Diablo Data Systems was a division of Xerox created by the acquisition of Diablo Systems Inc. Digital Equipment Corporation and Diablo Data Systems are Defunct computer companies of the United States and Defunct computer hardware companies.

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DIGITAL Command Language

DIGITAL Command Language (DCL) is the standard command language adopted by many of the operating systems created by Digital Equipment Corporation.

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Digital Federal Credit Union

Digital Federal Credit Union (DCU) is a credit union based in Marlborough, Massachusetts.

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Digital Linear Tape

Digital Linear Tape (DLT; previously called CompacTape) is a magnetic-tape data storage technology developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) from 1984 onwards.

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Diskless node

A diskless node (or diskless workstation) is a workstation or personal computer without disk drives, which employs network booting to load its operating system from a server.

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Domain name

In the Internet, a domain name is a string that identifies a realm of administrative autonomy, authority or control.

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Dot matrix printing

Dot matrix printing, sometimes called impact matrix printing, is a computer printing process in which ink is applied to a surface using a relatively low-resolution dot matrix for layout.

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DSM CC

Digital storage media command and control (DSM-CC) is a toolkit for developing control channels associated with MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 streams.

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Dynamic random-access memory

Dynamic random-access memory (dynamic RAM or DRAM) is a type of random-access semiconductor memory that stores each bit of data in a memory cell, usually consisting of a tiny capacitor and a transistor, both typically based on metal–oxide–semiconductor (MOS) technology.

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Early 1990s recession

The early 1990s recession describes the period of economic downturn affecting much of the Western world in the early 1990s.

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Edson de Castro

Edson de Castro (born 1938) is a computer engineer and businessman, perhaps best known for designing the Data General Nova series of computers.

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Embedded system

An embedded system is a computer system—a combination of a computer processor, computer memory, and input/output peripheral devices—that has a dedicated function within a larger mechanical or electronic system.

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Emitter-coupled logic

In electronics, emitter-coupled logic (ECL) is a high-speed integrated circuit bipolar transistor logic family.

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Encompass

Encompass, the Enterprise Computing Association, was the original computer user group for business customers of Hewlett-Packard.

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Enterprise software

Enterprise software, also known as enterprise application software (EAS), is computer software used to satisfy the needs of an organization rather than its individual users.

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Entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurship is the creation or extraction of economic value in ways that generally entail beyond the minimal amount of risk (assumed by a traditional business), and potentially involving values besides simply economic ones.

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Epic Systems

Epic Systems Corporation (commonly known as Epic) is an American privately held healthcare software company.

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Ethernet

Ethernet is a family of wired computer networking technologies commonly used in local area networks (LAN), metropolitan area networks (MAN) and wide area networks (WAN).

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File server

In computing, a file server (or fileserver) is a computer attached to a network that provides a location for shared disk access, i.e. storage of computer files (such as text, image, sound, video) that can be accessed by workstations within a computer network.

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Firewall (computing)

In computing, a firewall is a network security system that monitors and controls incoming and outgoing network traffic based on predetermined security rules.

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Flight simulator

A flight simulator is a device that artificially re-creates aircraft flight and the environment in which it flies, for pilot training, design, or other purposes.

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Flip-Chip module

A Flip-Chip module is a component of digital logic systems made by the Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) for its PDP-7, PDP-8, PDP-9, and PDP-10 computers, and related peripherals, beginning on August 24, 1964.

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Floating-point unit

A floating-point unit (FPU, colloquially a math coprocessor) is a part of a computer system specially designed to carry out operations on floating-point numbers.

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Floppy disk

A floppy disk or floppy diskette (casually referred to as a floppy, a diskette, or a disk) is a type of disk storage composed of a thin and flexible disk of a magnetic storage medium in a square or nearly square plastic enclosure lined with a fabric that removes dust particles from the spinning disk.

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Form factor (design)

Form factor is a hardware design aspect that defines and prescribes the size, shape, and other physical specifications of components, particularly in electronics.

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France

France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe.

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Friden Flexowriter

The Friden Flexowriter was a teleprinter produced by the Friden Calculating Machine Company.

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Gate array

A gate array is an approach to the design and manufacture of application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs) using a prefabricated chip with components that are later interconnected into logic devices (e.g. NAND gates, flip-flops, etc.) according to custom order by adding metal interconnect layers in the factory.

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General Electric

General Electric Company (GE) was an American multinational conglomerate founded in 1892, incorporated in the state of New York and headquartered in Boston. Digital Equipment Corporation and General Electric are Defunct computer companies of the United States, Defunct computer hardware companies and Defunct computer systems companies.

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GENICOM

GENICOM Corporation was an American manufacturer of computer printers, based in Chantilly, Virginia. Digital Equipment Corporation and GENICOM are Defunct computer companies of the United States and Defunct computer hardware companies.

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Gentoo Linux

Gentoo Linux (pronounced) is a Linux distribution built using the Portage package management system.

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Georges Doriot

Georges Frédéric Doriot (September 24, 1899 – June 1987) was a French-American known for his prolific careers in military, academics, business and education.

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GNU Project

The GNU Project is a free software, mass collaboration project announced by Richard Stallman on September 27, 1983.

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Gordon Bell

Chester Gordon Bell (August 19, 1934 – May 17, 2024) was an American electrical engineer and manager.

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Gouraud shading

Gouraud shading, named after Henri Gouraud, is an interpolation method used in computer graphics to produce continuous shading of surfaces represented by polygon meshes.

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Grace Hopper

Grace Brewster Hopper (December 9, 1906 – January 1, 1992) was an American computer scientist, mathematician, and United States Navy rear admiral.

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Hard disk drive

A hard disk drive (HDD), hard disk, hard drive, or fixed disk is an electro-mechanical data storage device that stores and retrieves digital data using magnetic storage with one or more rigid rapidly rotating platters coated with magnetic material.

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Harlan Anderson

Harlan Anderson (October 15, 1929 - January 30, 2019) was an American engineer and entrepreneur, best known as the co-founder of Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), which later became the second largest computer company in the world.

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HCL Notes

HCL Notes (formerly Lotus Notes then IBM Notes) is a proprietary collaborative software platform for Unix (AIX), IBM i, Windows, Linux, and macOS, sold by HCLTech.

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Health informatics

Health informatics is the study and implementation of computer structures and algorithms to improve communication, understanding, and management of medical information.

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Heathkit

Heathkit is the brand name of kits and other electronic products produced and marketed by the Heath Company. Digital Equipment Corporation and Heathkit are Defunct computer companies of the United States and Defunct computer hardware companies.

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Heathkit H11

The Heathkit H11 Computer is an early kit-format personal computer introduced in 1978.

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Henri Gouraud (computer scientist)

Henri Gouraud (born 1944) is a French computer scientist.

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Hewlett Packard Enterprise

The Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company (HPE) is an American multinational information technology company based in Spring, Texas.

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Hewlett-Packard

The Hewlett-Packard Company, commonly shortened to Hewlett-Packard or HP, was an American multinational information technology company headquartered in Palo Alto, California. Digital Equipment Corporation and Hewlett-Packard are Defunct computer companies of the United States, Defunct computer hardware companies and Defunct computer systems companies.

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Home automation

Home automation or domotics is building automation for a home.

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Honeywell

Honeywell International Inc. is an American publicly traded, multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina.

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HP Inc.

HP Inc. is an American multinational information technology company headquartered in Palo Alto, California, that develops personal computers (PCs), printers and related supplies, as well as 3D printing services.

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HP-Interex

Interex EMEA was the EMEA HP Users Organisation, representing the user community of Hewlett-Packard computers.

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Hudson Fab

The Hudson Fab was a semiconductor fabrication factory in Hudson, Massachusetts, opened in 1979 by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC).

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HyperACCESS

HyperACCESS (sometimes known as HyperTerminal) is a family of terminal emulation software by Hilgraeve.

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IBM

International Business Machines Corporation (using the trademark IBM), nicknamed Big Blue, is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Armonk, New York and present in over 175 countries.

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IBM Electric

The IBM Electric were an early series of electric typewriters that IBM manufactured, starting in the mid-1930s.

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IBM PC DOS

IBM PC DOS (an acronym for IBM Personal Computer Disk Operating System),Formally known as "The IBM Personal Computer DOS" from versions 1.0 through 3.30, as reported in those versions' respective COMMAND.COM outputs also known as PC DOS or IBM DOS, is a discontinued disk operating system for the IBM Personal Computer, its successors, and IBM PC compatibles.

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IBM Personal Computer

The IBM Personal Computer (model 5150, commonly known as the IBM PC) is the first microcomputer released in the IBM PC model line and the basis for the IBM PC compatible ''de facto'' standard.

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Ike Nassi

Isaac Robert "Ike" Nassi, born 1949 in Brooklyn, New York, is the founder, and former CTO and chairman at TidalScale, Inc.

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Information technology

Information technology (IT) is a set of related fields that encompass computer systems, software, programming languages, and data and information processing, and storage.

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Input/output

In computing, input/output (I/O, i/o, or informally io or IO) is the communication between an information processing system, such as a computer, and the outside world, such as another computer system, peripherals, or a human operator.

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Instruction set architecture

In computer science, an instruction set architecture (ISA) is an abstract model that generally defines how software controls the CPU in a computer or a family of computers.

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Integrated circuit

An integrated circuit (IC), also known as a microchip, computer chip, or simply chip, is a small electronic device made up of multiple interconnected electronic components such as transistors, resistors, and capacitors.

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Intel

Intel Corporation is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Santa Clara, California, and incorporated in Delaware.

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Intel 8088

The Intel 8088 ("eighty-eighty-eight", also called iAPX 88) microprocessor is a variant of the Intel 8086.

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Interactive computing

In computer science, interactive computing refers to software which accepts input from the user as it runs.

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Interdata 7/32 and 8/32

The Model 7/32 and Model 8/32 were 32-bit minicomputers introduced by Perkin-Elmer after they acquired Interdata, Inc., in 1973.

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Intersil

Intersil is an American semiconductor company headquartered in Milpitas, California.

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Intersil 6100

The Intersil 6100 is a single-chip microprocessor implementation of the 12-bit PDP-8 instruction set, along with a range of peripheral support and memory ICs developed by Intersil in the mid-1970s.

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IP address

An Internet Protocol address (IP address) is a numerical label such as that is assigned to a device connected to a computer network that uses the Internet Protocol for communication.

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IPAQ

The iPAQ is a discontinued Pocket PC and personal digital assistant which was first unveiled by Compaq in April 2000.

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ISO/IEC 8859

ISO/IEC 8859 is a joint ISO and IEC series of standards for 8-bit character encodings.

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ISO/IEC 8859-1

ISO/IEC 8859-1:1998, Information technology — 8-bit single-byte coded graphic character sets — Part 1: Latin alphabet No.

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Itsy Pocket Computer

The Itsy Pocket Computer is a small, low-power, handheld device with a highly flexible interface.

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Jeff Dean

Jeffrey Adgate "Jeff" Dean (born July 23, 1968) is an American computer scientist and software engineer.

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Jim Gettys

Jim Gettys (born 15 October 1953) is an American computer programmer.

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Jim Gray (computer scientist)

James Nicholas Gray (1944 – declared dead in absentia 2012) was an American computer scientist who received the Turing Award in 1998 "for seminal contributions to database and transaction processing research and technical leadership in system implementation".

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Jim Keller (engineer)

James B. Keller (born 1958/1959) is an American microprocessor engineer best known for his work at AMD, Apple, and Tesla.

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Job Control Language

Job Control Language (JCL) is a scripting language used on IBM mainframe operating systems to instruct the system on how to run a batch job or start a subsystem.

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Jupiter project

The Jupiter project was to be a new high-end model of Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)'s PDP-10 mainframe computers.

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Ken Olsen

Kenneth Harry Olsen (February 20, 1926 – February 6, 2011) was an American engineer who co-founded Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) in 1957 with colleague Harlan Anderson and his brother Stan Olsen.

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LaTeX

LaTeX (or, often stylized with vertically offset letters) is a software system for typesetting documents.

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Len Kawell

Len Kawell is an engineer and entrepreneur who once worked at Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), where he was one of the designers of the VAX/VMS operating system.

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Leonard Bosack

Leonard X. Bosack (born 1952) is a co-founder of Cisco Systems, an American-based multinational corporation that designs and sells consumer electronics, networking and communications technology, and services.

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Leslie Lamport

Leslie B. Lamport (born February 7, 1941) is an American computer scientist and mathematician.

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Light gun

A light gun is a pointing device for computers and a control device for arcade and video games, typically shaped to resemble a pistol.

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LINC

The LINC (Laboratory INstrument Computer) is a 12-bit, 2048-word transistorized computer.

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LINC-8

LINC-8 is the name of a minicomputer manufactured by Digital Equipment Corporation between 1966 and 1969.

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Linus Torvalds

Linus Benedict Torvalds (born 28 December 1969) is a Finnish-American software engineer who is the creator and lead developer of the Linux kernel.

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Linux

Linux is both an open-source Unix-like kernel and a generic name for a family of open-source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991, by Linus Torvalds.

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Linux distribution

A Linux distribution (often abbreviated as distro) is an operating system made from a software collection that includes the Linux kernel and often a package management system.

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List of the oldest currently registered Internet domain names

This is a list of the oldest extant registered generic top-level domains used in the Domain Name System of the Internet.

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Local Area Transport

Local Area Transport (LAT) is a non-routable (data link layer) networking technology developed by Digital Equipment Corporation to provide connection between the DECserver terminal servers and Digital's VAX and Alpha and MIPS host computers via Ethernet, giving communication between those hosts and serial devices such as video terminals and printers.

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Lockheed A-12

The Lockheed A-12 is a retired high-altitude, Mach 3+ reconnaissance aircraft built for the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) by Lockheed's Skunk Works, based on the designs of Clarence "Kelly" Johnson.

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Lotus 1-2-3

Lotus 1-2-3 is a discontinued spreadsheet program from Lotus Software (later part of IBM).

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Lotus Software

Lotus Software (called Lotus Development Corporation before its acquisition by IBM) was an American software company based in Massachusetts; it was sold to India's HCL Technologies in 2018.

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Louis Monier

Louis Monier (born March 21, 1956) was a cofounder of the Internet search engine AltaVista together with Paul Flaherty and Michael Burrows.

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Luca Cardelli

Luca Andrea Cardelli is an Italian computer scientist who is a research professor at the University of Oxford, UK.

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Lycos

Lycos, Inc. (stylized as LYCOS), is a web search engine and web portal established in 1994, spun out of Carnegie Mellon University.

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MacOS

macOS, originally Mac OS X, previously shortened as OS X, is an operating system developed and marketed by Apple since 2001.

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Magnetic tape

Magnetic tape is a medium for magnetic storage made of a thin, magnetizable coating on a long, narrow strip of plastic film.

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Magnetic-core memory

In computing, magnetic-core memory is a form of random-access memory.

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Mainframe computer

A mainframe computer, informally called a mainframe or big iron, is a computer used primarily by large organizations for critical applications like bulk data processing for tasks such as censuses, industry and consumer statistics, enterprise resource planning, and large-scale transaction processing.

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Marcus J. Ranum

Marcus J. Ranum (born November 5, 1962, in New York City, New York, United States) is a computer and network security researcher.

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Marvell Technology

Marvell Technology, Inc. is an American company, headquartered in Wilmington, Delaware, which develops and produces semiconductors and related technology.

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private land-grant research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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Matrix management

Matrix management is an organizational structure in which some individuals report to more than one supervisor or leader—relationships described as solid line or dotted line reporting.

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Maynard, Massachusetts

Maynard is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States.

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McGraw Hill Education

McGraw Hill is an American publishing company for educational content, software, and services for pre-K through postgraduate education.

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Meditech

Medical Information Technology, Inc., shortened to Meditech, is a privately held Massachusetts-based software and service company that develops and sells information systems for health care organizations.

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Memorex

Memorex Corp. began as a computer tape producer and expanded to become both a consumer media supplier and a major IBM plug compatible peripheral supplier. Digital Equipment Corporation and Memorex are Defunct computer companies of the United States and Defunct computer hardware companies.

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Memory paging

In computer operating systems, memory paging (or swapping on some Unix-like systems) is a memory management scheme by which a computer stores and retrieves data from secondary storage for use in main memory.

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Memory protection

Memory protection is a way to control memory access rights on a computer, and is a part of most modern instruction set architectures and operating systems.

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Memory-mapped I/O and port-mapped I/O

Memory-mapped I/O (MMIO) and port-mapped I/O (PMIO) are two complementary methods of performing input/output (I/O) between the central processing unit (CPU) and peripheral devices in a computer (often mediating access via chipset).

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Mentec

Mentec International Ltd was founded in 1978 and initially focused on the development of monitoring and control software and systems. Digital Equipment Corporation and Mentec are Defunct computer companies of the United States and Defunct computer hardware companies.

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Mergers and acquisitions

Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) are business transactions in which the ownership of companies, business organizations, or their operating units are transferred to or consolidated with another company or business organization.

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Michael Burrows

Michael Burrows, FRS (born 1963) is a British computer scientist and the creator of the Burrows–Wheeler transform, currently working for Google.

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Microcomputer

A microcomputer is a small, relatively inexpensive computer having a central processing unit (CPU) made out of a microprocessor.

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Microprocessor

A microprocessor is a computer processor for which the data processing logic and control is included on a single integrated circuit (IC), or a small number of ICs.

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Microsoft

Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Redmond, Washington.

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Microsoft Research

Microsoft Research (MSR) is the research subsidiary of Microsoft.

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Microsoft Windows

Microsoft Windows is a product line of proprietary graphical operating systems developed and marketed by Microsoft.

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MicroVAX

The MicroVAX is a discontinued family of low-cost minicomputers developed and manufactured by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC).

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Minicomputer

A minicomputer, or colloquially mini, is a type of smaller general-purpose computer developed in the mid-1960s and sold at a much lower price than mainframe and mid-size computers from IBM and its direct competitors.

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MIPS architecture

MIPS (Microprocessor without Interlocked Pipelined Stages) is a family of reduced instruction set computer (RISC) instruction set architectures (ISA)Price, Charles (September 1995).

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MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory

Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) is a research institute at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) formed by the 2003 merger of the Laboratory for Computer Science (LCS) and the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (AI Lab).

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MIT Lincoln Laboratory

The MIT Lincoln Laboratory, located in Lexington, Massachusetts, is a United States Department of Defense federally funded research and development center chartered to apply advanced technology to problems of national security.

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Modula-3

Modula-3 is a programming language conceived as a successor to an upgraded version of Modula-2 known as Modula-2+.

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Moore's law

Moore's law is the observation that the number of transistors in an integrated circuit (IC) doubles about every two years.

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MPEG-2

MPEG-2 (a.k.a. H.222/H.262 as was defined by the ITU) is a standard for "the generic coding of moving pictures and associated audio information".

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MS-DOS

MS-DOS (acronym for Microsoft Disk Operating System, also known as Microsoft DOS) is an operating system for x86-based personal computers mostly developed by Microsoft.

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Multinational Character Set

The Multinational Character Set (DMCS or MCS) is a character encoding created in 1983 by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) for use in the popular VT220 terminal.

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MUMPS

MUMPS ("Massachusetts General Hospital Utility Multi-Programming System"), or M, is an imperative, high-level programming language with an integrated transaction processing key–value database.

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Nassi–Shneiderman diagram

A Nassi–Shneiderman diagram (NSD) in computer programming is a graphical design representation for structured programming.

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NVAX

The NVAX is a CMOS microprocessor developed and produced by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) that implemented the VAX instruction set architecture (ISA).

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Object-oriented programming

Object-oriented programming (OOP) is a programming paradigm based on the concept of objects, which can contain data and code: data in the form of fields (often known as attributes or properties), and code in the form of procedures (often known as methods).

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OpenVMS

OpenVMS, often referred to as just VMS, is a multi-user, multiprocessing and virtual memory-based operating system.

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Operating system

An operating system (OS) is system software that manages computer hardware and software resources, and provides common services for computer programs.

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Oracle Corporation

Oracle Corporation is an American multinational computer technology company headquartered in Austin, Texas.

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Oracle Rdb

Oracle Rdb is a relational database management system for the OpenVMS operating system.

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Oregon

Oregon is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States.

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Original equipment manufacturer

An original equipment manufacturer (OEM) is generally perceived as a company that produces parts and equipment that may be marketed by another manufacturer.

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OS/8

OS/8 is the primary operating system used on the Digital Equipment Corporation's PDP-8 minicomputer.

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OSF/1

OSF/1 is a variant of the Unix operating system developed by the Open Software Foundation during the late 1980s and early 1990s.

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Palo Alto, California

Palo Alto (Spanish for) is a charter city in the northwestern corner of Santa Clara County, California, United States, in the San Francisco Bay Area, named after a coastal redwood tree known as El Palo Alto.

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Paris

Paris is the capital and largest city of France.

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Patch cable

A patch cable, patch cord or patch lead is an electrical or fiber-optic cable used to connect ("patch in") one electronic or optical device to another for signal routing.

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Patrick O'Neil

Patrick Eugene O'Neil (1942 – September 20, 2019) was an American computer scientist, an expert on databases, and a professor of computer science at the University of Massachusetts Boston.

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Paul Vixie

Paul Vixie is an American computer scientist whose technical contributions include Domain Name System (DNS) protocol design and procedure, mechanisms to achieve operational robustness of DNS implementations, and significant contributions to open source software principles and methodology.

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PC World

PC World (stylized as PCWorld) is a global computer magazine published monthly by IDG.

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PDP-1

The PDP-1 (Programmed Data Processor-1) is the first computer in Digital Equipment Corporation's PDP series and was first produced in 1959.

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PDP-10

Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)'s PDP-10, later marketed as the DECsystem-10, is a mainframe computer family manufactured beginning in 1966 and discontinued in 1983.

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PDP-11

The PDP–11 is a series of 16-bit minicomputers sold by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) from 1970 into the late 1990s, one of a set of products in the Programmed Data Processor (PDP) series.

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PDP-12

The PDP-12 (Programmed Data Processor) is a computer that was created by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) in 1969 and marketed specifically for science and engineering.

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PDP-15

The PDP-15 was the fifth and last of the 18-bit minicomputers produced by Digital Equipment Corporation.

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PDP-4

The PDP-4 was the successor to the Digital Equipment Corporation's PDP-1.

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PDP-5

The PDP-5 was Digital Equipment Corporation's first 12-bit computer, introduced in 1963.

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PDP-6

The PDP-6, short for Programmed Data Processor model 6, is a computer developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) during 1963 and first delivered in the summer of 1964.

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PDP-7

The PDP-7 is an 18-bit minicomputer produced by Digital Equipment Corporation as part of the PDP series.

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PDP-8

The PDP-8 is a family of 12-bit minicomputers that was produced by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC).

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PDP-9

The PDP-9, the fourth of the five 18-bit minicomputers produced by Digital Equipment Corporation, was introduced in 1966.

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Pentium (original)

The Pentium (also referred to as the i586) is a x86 microprocessor introduced by Intel on March 22, 1993.

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Pentium II

The Pentium II brand refers to Intel's sixth-generation microarchitecture ("P6") and x86-compatible microprocessors introduced on May 7, 1997.

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Pentium Pro

The Pentium Pro is a sixth-generation x86 microprocessor developed and manufactured by Intel and introduced on November 1, 1995.

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Peripheral

A peripheral device, or simply peripheral, is an auxiliary hardware device that a computer uses to transfer information externally.

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Peripheral Interchange Program

Peripheral Interchange Program (PIP) was a utility to transfer files on and between devices on Digital Equipment Corporation's computers.

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Personal digital assistant

A personal digital assistant (PDA) is a multi-purpose mobile device which functions as a personal information manager.

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Personal Jukebox

The Personal Jukebox (also known as PJB-100 or Music Compressor) was the first consumer hard drive-based digital audio player.

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Pocket PC

A Pocket PC (P/PC, PPC) is a class of personal digital assistant (PDA) that runs the Windows Mobile or Windows Embedded Compact operating system that has some of the abilities of modern desktop PCs.

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Printed circuit board

A printed circuit board (PCB), also called printed wiring board (PWB), is a medium used to connect or "wire" components to one another in a circuit.

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Printer (computing)

In computing, a printer is a peripheral machine which makes a durable representation of graphics or text, usually on paper.

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Profit margin

Profit margin is a financial ratio that measures the percentage of profit earned by a company in relation to its revenue.

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Programmed Data Processor

Programmed Data Processor (PDP), referred to by some customers, media and authors as "Programmable Data Processor," is a term used by the Digital Equipment Corporation from 1957 to 1990 for several lines of minicomputers.

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Programming language

A programming language is a system of notation for writing computer programs.

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Project Athena

Project Athena was a joint project of MIT, Digital Equipment Corporation, and IBM to produce a campus-wide distributed computing environment for educational use.

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Proprietary hardware

Proprietary hardware is computer hardware whose interface is controlled by the proprietor, often under patent or trade-secret protection.

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Punched card

A punched card (also punch card or punched-card) is a piece of card stock that stores digital data using punched holes.

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Punched tape

Five- and eight-hole wide punched paper tape Paper tape reader on the Harwell computer with a small piece of five-hole tape connected in a circle – creating a physical program loop Punched tape or perforated paper tape is a form of data storage device that consists of a long strip of paper through which small holes are punched.

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PuTTY

PuTTY is a free and open-source terminal emulator, serial console and network file transfer application.

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Quantum Corporation

Quantum Corporation is a data storage, management, and protection company that provides technology to store, manage, archive, and protect video and unstructured data throughout the data life cycle.

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Radar

Radar is a system that uses radio waves to determine the distance (ranging), direction (azimuth and elevation angles), and radial velocity of objects relative to the site.

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Radia Perlman

Radia Joy Perlman (born December 18, 1951) is an American computer programmer and network engineer.

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Rainbow 100

The Rainbow 100 is a microcomputer introduced by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) in 1982.

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Raytheon BBN

Raytheon BBN (originally Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc.) is an American research and development company based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States.

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RCA

The RCA Corporation was a major American electronics company, which was founded in 1919 as the Radio Corporation of America. Digital Equipment Corporation and RCA are Defunct computer companies of the United States, Defunct computer hardware companies and Defunct computer systems companies.

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Reconnaissance aircraft

A reconnaissance aircraft (colloquially, a spy plane) is a military aircraft designed or adapted to perform aerial reconnaissance with roles including collection of imagery intelligence (including using photography), signals intelligence, as well as measurement and signature intelligence.

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Red Hat

Red Hat, Inc. (formerly Red Hat Software, Inc.) is an American software company that provides open source software products to enterprises and is a subsidiary of IBM.

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Reduced instruction set computer

In electronics and computer science, a reduced instruction set computer (RISC) is a computer architecture designed to simplify the individual instructions given to the computer to accomplish tasks.

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Relational database

A relational database (RDB) is a database based on the relational model of data, as proposed by E. F. Codd in 1970.

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Robert Palmer (computer businessman)

Robert B. Palmer (born September 11, 1940) is an American businessman in the computer industry.

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RSTS/E

RSTS is a multi-user time-sharing operating system developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC, now part of Hewlett-Packard) for the PDP-11 series of 16-bit minicomputers.

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RSX-11

RSX-11 is a discontinued family of multi-user real-time operating systems for PDP-11 computers created by Digital Equipment Corporation.

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RT-11

RT-11 (Real-time 11) is a discontinued small, low-end, single-user real-time operating system for the full line of Digital Equipment Corporation PDP-11 16-bit computers.

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Sanjay Ghemawat

Sanjay Ghemawat (born 1966 in West Lafayette, Indiana) is an Indian American computer scientist and software engineer.

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Scott A. McGregor

Scott A. McGregor (born 1956) is an American technology executive and philanthropist.

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Scribe (markup language)

Scribe is a markup language and word processing system that pioneered the use of descriptive markup.

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Search engine

A search engine is a software system that provides hyperlinks to web pages and other relevant information on the Web in response to a user's query.

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Semi-Automatic Ground Environment

The Semi-Automatic Ground Environment (SAGE) was a system of large computers and associated networking equipment that coordinated data from many radar sites and processed it to produce a single unified image of the airspace over a wide area.

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Semiconductor memory

Semiconductor memory is a digital electronic semiconductor device used for digital data storage, such as computer memory.

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Shugart Associates

Shugart Associates (later Shugart Corporation) was a computer peripheral manufacturer that dominated the floppy disk drive market in the late 1970s and is famous for introducing the -inch "Minifloppy" floppy disk drive. Digital Equipment Corporation and Shugart Associates are Defunct computer companies of the United States and Defunct computer hardware companies.

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Silicon Graphics

Silicon Graphics, Inc. (stylized as SiliconGraphics before 1999, later rebranded SGI, historically known as Silicon Graphics Computer Systems or SGCS) was an American high-performance computing manufacturer, producing computer hardware and software. Digital Equipment Corporation and Silicon Graphics are Defunct computer companies of the United States, Defunct computer hardware companies and Defunct computer systems companies.

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Skunkworks project

A skunkworks project is a project developed by a relatively small and loosely structured group of people who research and develop a project, often with a very large degree of autonomy, primarily for the sake of radical innovation.

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Software

Software consists of computer programs that instruct the execution of a computer.

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Software repository

A software repository, or repo for short, is a storage location for software packages.

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South Queensferry

Queensferry, also called South Queensferry or simply "The Ferry", is a town to the west of Edinburgh, Scotland.

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Spanning Tree Protocol

The Spanning Tree Protocol (STP) is a network protocol that builds a loop-free logical topology for Ethernet networks.

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SpeechFX

SpeechFX, Inc. (formerly Fonix Corporation) offers voice technology for mobile phone and wireless devices, interactive video games, toys, home appliances, computer telephony systems and vehicle telematics.

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Standard Disk Interconnect

The Standard Disk Interconnect (SDI, sometimes Standard Disk Interface) was used by Digital Equipment Corporation for its line of RAxx disks, for example the RA90.

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Standard RAID levels

In computer storage, the standard RAID levels comprise a basic set of RAID ("redundant array of independent disks" or "redundant array of inexpensive disks") configurations that employ the techniques of striping, mirroring, or parity to create large reliable data stores from multiple general-purpose computer hard disk drives (HDDs).

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Stanford MIPS

MIPS, an acronym for Microprocessor without Interlocked Pipeline Stages, was a research project conducted by John L. Hennessy at Stanford University between 1981 and 1984.

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StrongARM

The StrongARM is a family of computer microprocessors developed by Digital Equipment Corporation and manufactured in the late 1990s which implemented the ARM v4 instruction set architecture.

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Sun Microsystems

Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Sun for short) was an American technology company that sold computers, computer components, software, and information technology services and created the Java programming language, the Solaris operating system, ZFS, the Network File System (NFS), and SPARC microprocessors. Digital Equipment Corporation and Sun Microsystems are Defunct computer companies of the United States, Defunct computer hardware companies and Defunct computer systems companies.

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SunRiver Data Systems

SunRiver Data Systems was a division of SunRiver Corporation, a private company founded in 1986 in Jackson, Mississippi by four electrical engineers (Ronnie Hughes, Bill Long, Kester Rice, and Gerald Youngblood), all former employees of Diversified Technology, Inc. Initially funded by a local businessman, the company moved to Austin, Texas in 1989 after acquiring venture capital financing from Sevin Rosen Funds and Austin Ventures. Digital Equipment Corporation and SunRiver Data Systems are Defunct computer companies of the United States and Defunct computer hardware companies.

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SuperH

SuperH (or SH) is a 32-bit reduced instruction set computing (RISC) instruction set architecture (ISA) developed by Hitachi and currently produced by Renesas.

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Superminicomputer

A superminicomputer, colloquially supermini, is a high-end minicomputer.

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System Module

System Modules (originally known as System Building Blocks; the name was changed around 1961) are a DEC modular digital logic family which preceded the later FLIP CHIPs.

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Teletype Corporation

The Teletype Corporation, a part of American Telephone and Telegraph Company's Western Electric manufacturing arm since 1930, came into being in 1928 when the Morkrum-Kleinschmidt Company changed its name to the name of its trademark equipment. Digital Equipment Corporation and Teletype Corporation are Defunct computer companies of the United States and Defunct computer hardware companies.

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Teletype Model 33

The Teletype Model 33 is an electromechanical teleprinter designed for light-duty office use.

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Terminal server

A terminal server connects devices with a serial port to a local area network (LAN).

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The Computer Museum, Boston

The Computer Museum was a Boston, Massachusetts, museum that opened in 1979 and operated in three locations until 1999.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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In computing, time-sharing is the concurrent sharing of a computing resource among many tasks or users by giving each task or user a small slice of processing time.

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Token Ring

Token Ring is a physical and data link layer computer networking technology used to build local area networks.

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TOPS-10

TOPS-10 System (Timesharing / Total Operating System-10) is a discontinued operating system from Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) for the PDP-10 (or DECsystem-10) mainframe computer family.

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TOPS-20

The TOPS-20 operating system by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) is a proprietary OS used on some of DEC's 36-bit mainframe computers.

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Trademark

A trademark (also written trade mark or trade-mark) is a type of intellectual property consisting of a recognizable sign, design, or expression that identifies a product or service from a particular source and distinguishes it from others.

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Transistor

A transistor is a semiconductor device used to amplify or switch electrical signals and power.

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Tru64 UNIX

Tru64 UNIX is a discontinued 64-bit UNIX operating system for the Alpha instruction set architecture (ISA), currently owned by Hewlett-Packard (HP).

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TX-0

The TX-0, for Transistorized Experimental computer zero, but affectionately referred to as tixo (pronounced "tix oh"), was an early fully transistorized computer and contained a then-huge 64K of 18-bit words of magnetic-core memory.

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TX-2

The MIT Lincoln Laboratory TX-2 computer was the successor to the Lincoln TX-0 and was known for its role in advancing both artificial intelligence and human–computer interaction.

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Typesetting

Typesetting is the composition of text for publication, display, or distribution by means of arranging physical ''type'' (or sort) in mechanical systems or glyphs in digital systems representing characters (letters and other symbols).

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Unibus

The Unibus was the earliest of several computer bus and backplane designs used with PDP-11 and early VAX systems manufactured by the Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) of Maynard, Massachusetts.

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Unicode

Unicode, formally The Unicode Standard, is a text encoding standard maintained by the Unicode Consortium designed to support the use of text in all of the world's writing systems that can be digitized.

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United States Air Force

The United States Air Force (USAF) is the air service branch of the United States Armed Forces, and is one of the eight uniformed services of the United States.

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UNIVAC

UNIVAC (Universal Automatic Computer) was a line of electronic digital stored-program computers starting with the products of the Eckert–Mauchly Computer Corporation. Digital Equipment Corporation and UNIVAC are Defunct computer companies of the United States, Defunct computer hardware companies and Defunct computer systems companies.

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Unix

Unix (trademarked as UNIX) is a family of multitasking, multi-user computer operating systems that derive from the original AT&T Unix, whose development started in 1969 at the Bell Labs research center by Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, and others.

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UNIX System III

UNIX System III (or System 3) is a discontinued version of the Unix operating system released by AT&T's Unix Support Group (USG).

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Users' group

A users' group (also user's group or user group) is a type of club focused on the use of a particular technology, usually (but not always) computer-related.

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Vacuum tube

A vacuum tube, electron tube, valve (British usage), or tube (North America) is a device that controls electric current flow in a high vacuum between electrodes to which an electric potential difference has been applied.

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VAX

VAX (an acronym for Virtual Address eXtension) is a series of computers featuring a 32-bit instruction set architecture (ISA) and virtual memory that was developed and sold by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) in the late 20th century.

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VAX 7000 and VAX 10000

The VAX 7000 and VAX 10000 are a discontinued family of high-end multiprocessor minicomputers developed and manufactured by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), introduced in July 1992.

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VAX 9000

The VAX 9000 is a discontinued family of mainframes developed and manufactured by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) using custom ECL-based processors implementing the VAX instruction set architecture (ISA).

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VAX-11

The VAX-11 is a discontinued family of 32-bit superminicomputers, running the Virtual Address eXtension (VAX) instruction set architecture (ISA), developed and manufactured by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC).

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VAXELN

VAXELN (typically pronounced "VAX-elan") is a discontinued real-time operating system for the VAX family of computers produced by the Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) of Maynard, Massachusetts.

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VAXmate

VAXmate was an IBM PC/AT compatible personal computer introduced by Digital Equipment Corporation in September, 1986.

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Vector graphics

Vector graphics are a form of computer graphics in which visual images are created directly from geometric shapes defined on a Cartesian plane, such as points, lines, curves and polygons.

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Venix

Venix is a discontinued version of the Unix operating system for low-end computers, developed by VenturCom, a "company that specialises in the skinniest implementations of Unix".

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Video on demand

Video on demand (VOD) is a media distribution system that allows users to access videos, television shows and films digitally on request.

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Virtual machine

In computing, a virtual machine (VM) is the virtualization or emulation of a computer system.

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Virtual memory

In computing, virtual memory, or virtual storage, is a memory management technique that provides an "idealized abstraction of the storage resources that are actually available on a given machine" which "creates the illusion to users of a very large (main) memory".

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VMScluster

A VMScluster, originally known as a VAXcluster, is a computer cluster involving a group of computers running the OpenVMS operating system.

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VT05

The VT05 is the first free-standing CRT computer terminal from Digital Equipment Corporation introduced in 1970.

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VT100

The VT100 is a video terminal, introduced in August 1978 by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC).

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VT180

The VT180 is a personal computer produced by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) of Maynard, Massachusetts, USA.

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VT220

The VT200 series is a family of computer terminals introduced by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) in November 1983.

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VT52

The VT50 is a CRT-based computer terminal that was introduced by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) in July 1974.

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Waltham, Massachusetts

Waltham is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States, and was an early center for the labor movement as well as a major contributor to the American Industrial Revolution.

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Wang Laboratories

Wang Laboratories was a US computer company founded in 1951 by An Wang and G. Y. Chu. Digital Equipment Corporation and Wang Laboratories are Defunct computer companies based in Massachusetts, Defunct computer companies of the United States, Defunct computer hardware companies and Defunct computer systems companies.

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Whirlwind I

Whirlwind I was a Cold War-era vacuum-tube computer developed by the MIT Servomechanisms Laboratory for the U.S. Navy.

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Windows 1.0

Windows 1.0 was the first major release of Microsoft Windows, a family of graphical operating systems for personal computers developed by Microsoft.

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Windows NT

Windows NT is a proprietary graphical operating system produced by Microsoft as part of its Windows product line, the first version of which, Windows NT 3.1, was released on July 27, 1993.

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Wire wrap

Close-up of a wire-wrap connection Typical wire wrap construction of Bell System telephone crossbar switch. Some types of connection were soldered. Wire wrap is an electronic component assembly technique that was invented to wire telephone crossbar switches, and later adapted to construct electronic circuit boards.

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Wired (magazine)

Wired (stylized in all caps) is a monthly American magazine, published in print and online editions, that focuses on how emerging technologies affect culture, the economy, and politics.

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Word (computer architecture)

In computing, a word is the natural unit of data used by a particular processor design.

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Workstation

A workstation is a special computer designed for technical or scientific applications.

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World Wide Web

The World Wide Web (WWW or simply the Web) is an information system that enables content sharing over the Internet through user-friendly ways meant to appeal to users beyond IT specialists and hobbyists.

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World Wide Web Consortium

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is the main international standards organization for the World Wide Web.

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WYSIWYG

In computing, WYSIWYG, an acronym for what you see is what you get, refers to software that allows content to be edited in a form that resembles its appearance when printed or displayed as a finished product, such as a printed document, web page, or slide presentation.

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X Window System

The X Window System (X11, or simply X) is a windowing system for bitmap displays, common on Unix-like operating systems.

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Xerox

Xerox Holdings Corporation is an American corporation that sells print and digital document products and services in more than 160 countries. Digital Equipment Corporation and Xerox are Defunct computer systems companies.

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XScale

XScale is a microarchitecture for central processing units initially designed by Intel implementing the ARM architecture (version 5) instruction set.

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Xterm

xterm is the standard terminal emulator for the X Window System.

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Zilog Z80

The Zilog Z80 is an 8-bit microprocessor designed by Zilog that played an important role in the evolution of early computing.

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.com

The domain com is a top-level domain (TLD) in the Domain Name System (DNS) of the Internet.

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18-bit computing

Eighteen binary digits have (1000000 octal, 40000 hexadecimal) distinct combinations.

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19-inch rack

A 19-inch rack is a standardized frame or enclosure for mounting multiple electronic equipment modules.

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36-bit computing

36-bit computers were popular in the early mainframe computer era from the 1950s through the early 1970s.

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64-bit computing

In computer architecture, 64-bit integers, memory addresses, or other data units are those that are 64 bits wide.

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