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Research

DEC's Research Laboratories (or Research Labs, as they were commonly known) conducted Digital's corporate research. Some of them were operated by Compaq and are still operated by Hewlett-Packard. The laboratories were:

  • Western Research Laboratory (WRL) in Palo Alto, California, USA
  • Systems Research Center (SRC) in Palo Alto, California, USA
  • Network Systems Laboratory (NSL) in Palo Alto, California, USA
  • Cambridge Research Laboratory (CRL) in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
  • Paris Research Laboratory (PRL) in Paris, France
  • MetroWest Technology Campus (MTC) in Maynard, Massachusetts, USA

Some of the former employees of Digital's Research Labs or Digital's R&D in general include:

  • Gordon Bell — technical visionary, VP Engineering 1972-1983; Microsoft Research
  • Leonard Bosack —
  • Henry Burkhardt III — co-founder of Data General Corporation and Kendall Square Research
  • Mike Burrows
  • Luca Cardelli —
  • Dave Cutler — led RSX-11M and VAX/VMS operating systems development; then led Windows NT development at Microsoft
  • Ed deCastro — co-founder of Data General Corporation
  • Jim Gettys — early developer of X Window System
  • Henri Gouraud —
  • Jim Gray —
  • Alan Kotok —
  • Leslie Lamport —
  • Butler Lampson —
  • Louis Monier —
  • Isaac Nassi —
  • Radia Perlman —
  • Marcus Ranum —
  • Brian Reid —
  • Paul Vixie —

Some of the former employees of Digital Equipment Corp who were responsible for developing Alpha and StrongARM

  • Daniel W. Dobberpuhl —
  • Jill Keller —
  • Rich Witek —

Some of the work of the Research Labs was published in the Digital Technical Journal, which was in published from 1985 until 1998.

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