arsTECHNICA Article About DEC

[rbcarleton]

Long gone, DEC is still powering the world of computing
One of the early pioneers in computing, the company disappeared in the late 1990s.

Even though very few of the early players in technology still exist, we use their creations to this day. Bell Labs created the transistor, and Fairchild Semiconductor created the integrated circuit, but neither company is still around. So is the case with Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC). It no longer exists, but unless you're using a handheld device to read this article, you're using a descendant of DEC technology.

DEC was founded in 1957 by Ken Olsen, Harlan Anderson, and H. Edward Roberts to build small digital modules, but the team soon discovered that they could use those modules to build minicomputers—computers that were smaller and less powerful (but cheaper) than mainframes, which were the business standard at the time.

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https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/10 ... computing/

[arne_v]

I also saw it.

It is pretty positive about DEC.

I also think there are a number of inaccuracies.

[sodjan]

I think that the article completely missed that VMS did not just die some years ago.
I did not see any mention about VSI and the current x86 migration.

When they wrote:

"The DEC line, including the VAX/VMS system, was discontinued and faded from the market.
And yet it lives on today. Here’s how..."

I expected a description of that VSI are doing.
But instead in went on talking about Win-NT....

[jgd@cix.co.uk]

Several people, including me, have linked to VSI in the comments on the article.

John