Consumers in Europe and Australia might be more familiar with its AEG and Vax brands.
Its VAX was the gold standard of minicomputers, the model by which all others were measured.
Rumor has it there are still a lot of DEC VAX systems, circa 1990, still running mission-critical applications.
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Only the VAX succeeded--and then DEC stuck with it too long, lingering in minicomputers after the market had turned to workstations.
Developed by tiny biotech firm Galena Biopharma (GALE), Neu Vax is now in the initial phases of a third clinical study that.
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His latest anti-vax screed is an attack on Gardasil, the HPV vaccine.
At various times, DEC had the best computer (the VAX), the best processor (the Alpha EXP) and the best search engine (AltaVista) and failed.
One in which it has expressed some interest is in Neu Vax, which recently completed phase 2 clinical trials as a vaccine for breast cancer patients.
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Anderson Cancer Center, and co-discoverer of Neu Vax.
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Bell invented the VAX at Digital Equipment in the 1980s, and today is a leader in the movement to use computers and cameras to record and store every last bit of data about our lives.
The VAX remains the single most influential computer of all time--not just because of its pre-eminence among minis in the 1970s and 1980s, but because Ted Hoff so admired it that he used its architecture as the basis of the Intel 4004, the world's first microprocessor.
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