They began to give way in the 1970s to the second wave: less costly midrange minicomputers.
In the late 1960s Allen-Bradley bought a small outfit that made programmable logic controllers--custom minicomputers.
Its VAX was the gold standard of minicomputers, the model by which all others were measured.
By the late 1980s minicomputers were being pushed out by the third wave: networks of pcs and Unix-based servers.
The jets swooped in with 1, 000-pound bombs equipped with minicomputers and GPS. The missiles found their targets.
There are more than 400, 000 aging VMS minicomputers worldwide, comprising a fat target for IBM, Sun Microsystems and Hewlett-Packard.
There are more than 400, 000 aging VMS minicomputers worldwide, making a fat target for IBM, Sun Microsystems and Hewlett-Packard.
In 1983 he quit selling minicomputers for Digital Equipment to start a company that custom-installed mesh antiglare screens on computer monitors.
Only the VAX succeeded--and then DEC stuck with it too long, lingering in minicomputers after the market had turned to workstations.
Newman's first propitious stumble was out of the business of renting minicomputers, a business doomed by the invention of the PC.
Newman's first lucky stumble was out of the business of renting minicomputers, a business doomed by the invention of the PC.
To do this, we used Data General minicomputers, from which we had stripped the operating software and replaced it with our own.
Consider the ignoble end of that pioneer of minicomputers, Digital Equipment Corporation.
But the company nearly went broke in the early 1990s because its dominance was done in, first by minicomputers and then by PC networks.
Richard Egan, an early Andy Grove protg at Intel, and former college buddy Roger Marino set up EMC in 1979 to build add-on memory for minicomputers.
"The reason why mobile technology is uniquely interesting to the world right now is because it represents the fifth wave of computing, " Saylor said, with smartphones following Internet-enabled computing, desktops, minicomputers and early computer mainframes on the timeline.
And since Oracle software runs on a variety of platforms, it is well positioned at a time when many large customers are "rightsizing"--that is, attempting to find the most productive mix of mainframes, minicomputers, workstations, PCs and servers on which to run the company.
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