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Jerry McAllister jerrymc at clunix.cl.msu.edu
Wed Jan 14 07:14:07 PST 2004


> 
> On Tue, 2004-01-13 at 20:13, Kevin R. Lee wrote:
> > Sorry, one more question, what does DEC Alpha stand for?
> Digital Electric Corporation. (or did before Compaq bought them, before
> being bought themselves, by HP)

Actually, I think it was Digital Equipment Corporation.  DEC was
a major vendor for what was then called "Mini" computers - refrigerator
sized machines intended for use in labs and engineering workshops.
Alpha was one of their brand model lines of work stations.

////jerry

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