Penguin
Note: You are viewing an old revision of this page. View the current version.

Acronym for Digital Equipment Corporation

They made VAX machines during the 1980's (and 70's maybe?) which were widely used - both WaikatoUniversity and CanterburyUniversity still have VAX mainframes in service. VAXs normally run the VMS operating system with Digital's Command Language (DCL) as the CLI (As pointed out by zcat(1)). They can also run unix.

Also made Alpha machines.

DEC were eventually bought out by Compaq.


CategoryCompany