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April
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Introduction of DIGITAL's Network
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February
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Introduction of DECnet Phase III -- the most advanced
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June 1980:
DIGITAL, Intel and Xerox cooperate in Ethernet local area network
project. |
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May 1983:
DIGITAL announces VAXclusters. |
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October
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DECnet Phase IV is announced. |
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February
1986:
Announcement of DECconnect
wiring strategy and related products and services
extends DIGITAL's networking leadership. |
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November
1986:
DIGITAL introduces Local Area VAXcluster systems, extending distributed
computing to the work group. |
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January
1988:
DIGITAL extends its Network Applications Support (NAS) facilities to integrate MS-DOS,
OS/2 and UNIX systems into the open DECnet/OSI
network environment. |
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May 1990:
DIGITAL begins shipment of its second-generation LAN
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September
1993:
DIGITAL introduces the GIGAswitch/FDDI. |
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November
1994:
DIGITAL introduces the GIGAswitch/ATM. |
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April
1995:
DIGITAL outlines its plan for virtual
networking
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