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Digital Equipment Corporation achieved sales of over $14 billion, reached the Fortune 50, and was second only to IBM as a computer manufacturer. Though responsible for the invention of speech recognition, the minicomputer, and local area networking, DEC ultimately failed as a business and was sold to Compaq Corporation in 1998. This fascinating modern Greek tragedy by Ed Schein, a high-level consultant to DEC for 40 years, shows how DEC's unique corporate culture contributed both to its early successes and later to an organizational rigidity that caused its ultimate downfall.

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DEC Alpha - The DEC Alpha, also known as the Alpha AXP, is a 64-bit RISC microprocessor originally developed and fabricated by Digital Equipment Corp. (DEC), which used it in its own line of workstations and servers.

DEC Multia - The Multia, later re-branded the Universal Desktop Box, is a line of computer workstations produced by the Digital Equipment Corporation in the mid-1990s. The line is notable in that units were offered with either an Alpha AXP or Intel Pentium processor as the CPU, and most hardware other than the backplane and CPU were interchangeable.

DECstation - The DECstation was a brand of computers built by DEC, and refers to two distinct lines of computer systems—the first released in the 1970s as a word processing system, and the second (and more widely known) released in 1989 as computer workstations based on the MIPS architecture. The MIPS-based workstations ran Ultrix, a DEC-proprietary version of UNIX.

Xinu - Xinu ("Xinu Is Not Unix", a recursive acronym) was a Unix-like operating system developed by Douglas Comer for instructional purposes, at Purdue University in the 1980s. It ran several hardware platforms, including the DEC LSI-11, Sun-2 and Sun-3 workstations.

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