[sradman]

> They should have merged with a PC make obviously.

DEC was acquired by Compaq [1]:

> In 1998, Compaq acquired Digital Equipment Corporation for a then-industry record of US$9 billion. The merger made Compaq, at the time, the world's second largest computer maker in the world in terms of revenue behind IBM.

Maybe you were being sarcastic.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compaq#Acquisitions

[blihp]

I took it to be sarcastic. It was a spectacular fail as within about a year of the acquisition everything good they were doing had completely disappeared from view never to be seen again. That's not to say that DEC could have done any better on their own: with the absolute market dominance of Wintel at the time, they were flaming out as so many other mini and workstation companies did as their markets evaporated.