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DEC Last modified: Thursday, October 30, 2003

Pronounced deck, and short for Digital Equipment Corporation, one of leading producers of workstations, servers, and high-end PCs. DEC also developed one of the leading Internet search engines called Alta Vista. In January, 1998, DEC agreed to be acquired by Compaq, which was then acquired by Hewlett-Packard.

VT100.net This site is dedicated to the range of video terminals produced by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) from 1970 to 1995. The most famous of these is the VT100, a name which is recognised most often today as a setting in terminal emulation programs. DEC FAQs Contains links to USENET FAQs for several of Digital Equipment Corporation's operating systems (Digital UNIX, ULTRIX, OpenVMS, and PDP-8). The Truth About Servers What makes a server a server? Is there a difference between an e-mail server and a messaging server? Should a firewall be considered a server in certain circumstances? These questions and more are answered in an extensive tutorial that cuts through the marketing hype and explains the basics of key server types.