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Digital Equipment Corporation

also referred to as: dec

5 statements across 4 episodes · 2 bullish · 0 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Sep 6, 2022 by Ben Gilbert · said 56 times in 9 episodes since 2022 · across every show →

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Sep 6, 2022 positive
Assertion Supported
Gilbert: Migrating to Linux and HP servers saved Amazon from bankruptcy
“I mean, in 2000, they almost went out of business because they were so tight on cash and they were spending so much on infrastructure that this sort of moved to the open source ecosystem and doing a massive rewrite of all of Amazon.com to run on Linux and run …”
Ben Gilbert Sep 6, 2022 ▶ 17:49 Amazon Web Services · Acquired
Apr 22, 2024 neutral
Assertion Supported
DEC priced the PDP-1 at $120,000, far below IBM mainframes
“So the first deck machine, when it comes out, the PDP one a few years before this time, it was priced at a 120,000 dollars. So like an order of magnitude, maybe two below a system that you would buy from IBM.”
David Rosenthal Apr 22, 2024 ▶ 18:49 Microsoft Volume I: The Complete History and Strategy of founding through Windows 95 (Audio) · Acquired
Jan 21, 2025 positive
Assertion Supported
Rosenthal: Apple Silicon traces from ARM and DEC through Intel and P.A. Semi
“Lineage of all of Apple Silicon, probably the most valuable, defensible part of Apple today in terms of technology, was Armandec to Intel to PA Semi to Apple.”
David Rosenthal Jan 21, 2025 ▶ 1:13:27 TSMC · Acquired
Jun 30, 2025 neutral
Assertion Partly supported
AltaVista Launched Commercially with 16 Million Indexed Pages
“So when AltaVista spins out of deck and launches as a commercial company and entity in and of itself, it's big claim to fame is its index. It has sixteen million pages in its index versus the competitors.”
David Rosenthal Jun 30, 2025 ▶ 52:28 Google Part I: Origins of Search. How the Best Business in Human History Happened (Audio) · Acquired
Jun 30, 2025 neutral
Assertion Partly supported
Rosenthal: Web Crawlers Before AltaVista Were Single-Threaded
“Before AltaVista, all the other web crawlers out there that were building search engines, they were just, like, single-threaded processes. You'd go crawl one page, and then you'd go crawl another page, and then you'd go crawl another page.”
David Rosenthal Jun 30, 2025 ▶ 50:18 Google Part I: Origins of Search. How the Best Business in Human History Happened (Audio) · Acquired
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