DEC was incredibly innovative, and not just in hardware. No mention in the article of DECNet, which was the networking suite for the VMS operating system. [1]

DEC was incredibly innovative, and not just in hardware. No mention in the article of DECNet, which was the networking suite for the VMS operating system. [1] It was my first intro to inter-process communications. The libraries were easily accessible from VAX FORTRAN, another awesome DEC product. Besides enabling processes on VAX/VMS hosts to share data easily, DECNet could also interoperate with networking on IBM operating systems like MVS. At one point DEC apparently could network IBM computers--which had wildly different architectures--better than IBM itself. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DECnet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DECnet