We had DECstations. They were great systems for the day. Only a few years later, they were overtaken in speed and price by (IIRC) 486 systems with Linux; I thin

We had DECstations. They were great systems for the day. Only a few years later, they were overtaken in speed and price by (IIRC) 486 systems with Linux; I think those were cheaper than the tape cartridge unit on which we got the system updates. DEC never recovered.