An awful lot of it is explained by the lack of the need for minicomputers as consumer hardware began to make them unneeded and the downfall of DEC. While DEC tr

An awful lot of it is explained by the lack of the need for minicomputers as consumer hardware began to make them unneeded and the downfall of DEC. While DEC tried to get into other fields such as workstations with their Alpha RISC processor, workstations weren't a great market either as they too were becoming threatened by consumer hardware.