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by GrilledChips
964 days ago
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It wasn't the cost of alpha. It was the bleeding all through the rest of the company. DEC's terminals? killed by PCs. The VAX lineup? killed by RISC chips, and the VAX 9000 consumed a huge chunk of their cash reserves before embarrassingly being rendered obsolete by their own NVAX. This was a time of change from minicomputers to microcomputers and DEC made costly decision after costly decision. They kept selling off profitable "non-core" portions of the business that in the process incurred a loss. |
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