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• n  a digital computer of medium size

• One challenge came from the Route 128 area around Boston, where Digital Equipment and other firms launched the minicomputer.
• Digital, which made its mark in the minicomputer market, is struggling as it tries to readjust to the PC and high-powered work station market.
• Two hours into that game, a crack opened up in the Cray's king-side attack, and the minicomputer swooped in for the kill.

News & Articles

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• Server market realignment | The #CIOangle
  The server market is in the midst of a radical realignment, the likes of which have not been seen since the shakeout of the 1980s that saw most of the minicomputer makers, including Prime Computer, Data General and Digital Equipment … Continue reading ?
  Feb. 4, 2014 - SiliconANGLE

Quotes

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• Brin in CNet News.com Blog (blog)
  Brin responded: "I don't really think that the thing is to take a previous generation of technology and port them directly, and say 'Can we do the minicomputer on the Web on AJAX,' makes sense. I'm not saying that's what (Microsoft) Office is; I'm...
• Peter Quinn in PC Magazine
  Microsoft has remade the desktop world,Quinn said. "But if you've watched history, there's a slag heap of proprietary companies who have fallen by the wayside because they were stuck in their ways. Just look at the minicomputer business,...
• Bill Joy in ZDNet
  Joy had a collection of six VAX 750 computers from Digital Equipment Corp. "It looked like a computer center, but they were actually my machines," Joy said. "I took him in the machine room. I walked up to a minicomputer, turned it off, pulled...