Documentation for VMS and the whole shebang of layered products.
Until this day, in my book, the absolute gold standard when it comes to documentation.
Having the arguably best tools suite to develop (LSE, Debugger, what have you) also didn't hurt.
I still believe it the best operating system I ever worked with.
Ironically the article describes quite precisely why DEC failed.
Most of the company had a visceral hate of anything Unix and anybody involved with anything that even smelled faintly of Unix was a second class citizen.
Well, looking at Ultrix may have been the main reason for that. Ironically and decades later they had one of the best Unix offers on the market with Tru64 Unix.
DEC was in many, many respects an awesome company. Shame that Compaq (and later HP) never really had a clue about what they actually got there.
>Most of the company had a visceral hate of anything Unix and anybody involved with anything that even smelled faintly of Unix was a second class citizen.
Documentation for VMS and the whole shebang of layered products.
Until this day, in my book, the absolute gold standard when it comes to documentation.
Having the arguably best tools suite to develop (LSE, Debugger, what have you) also didn't hurt.
I still believe it the best operating system I ever worked with.
Ironically the article describes quite precisely why DEC failed.
Most of the company had a visceral hate of anything Unix and anybody involved with anything that even smelled faintly of Unix was a second class citizen.
Well, looking at Ultrix may have been the main reason for that. Ironically and decades later they had one of the best Unix offers on the market with Tru64 Unix.
DEC was in many, many respects an awesome company. Shame that Compaq (and later HP) never really had a clue about what they actually got there.
Source: I worked for DEC from 90 - 94.