DEC (Digital Equipment Corporation)
major worldwide manufacturer of computer equipment Dec. (December) n. twelfth and final month of the Gregorian calendar | ||||
Search Dictionary:
DEC definition was found in categories: Computer & Internet(6) Language, Idioms & Slang(3) Arts & Humanities(1) Government(1) Business & Finance(1) Science & Technology(5) Encyclopedia(1)
DEC Definition from Computer & Internet Dictionaries & Glossaries
| FOLDOC |
dec
<programming> /dek/ decrement, decrease by one. Especially used by assembly language programmers, as many assembly languages have a "dec" mnemonic.
Opposite: inc.
[Jargon File]
| Jargon File |
DEC
/dek/ n. 1. v. Verbal (and only rarely written) shorthand for decrement, i.e. `decrease by one'. Especially used by assembly programmers, as many assembly languages have a
/dek/ n. 1. v. Verbal (and only rarely written) shorthand for decrement, i.e. `decrease by one'. Especially used by assembly programmers, as many assembly languages have a
dec mnemonic. Antonym: inc. 2. n. Commonly used abbreviation for Digital Equipment Corporation, later deprecated by DEC itself in favor of "Digital" and now entirely obsolete following the buyout by Compaq. Before the killer micro revolution of the late 1980s, hackerdom was closely symbiotic with DEC's pioneering timesharing machines. The first of the group of cultures described by this lexicon nucleated around the PDP-1 (see TMRC). Subsequently, the PDP-6, PDP-10, PDP-20, PDP-11 and VAX were all foci of large and important hackerdoms, and DEC machines long dominated the ARPANET and Internet machine population. DEC was the technological leader of the minicomputer era (roughly 1967 to 1987), but its failure to embrace microcomputers and Unix early cost it heavily in profits and prestige after silicon got cheap. Nevertheless, the microprocessor design tradition owes a major debt to the PDP-11 instruction set, and every one of the major general-purpose microcomputer OSs so far (CP/M, MS-DOS, Unix, OS/2, Windows NT) was either genetically descended from a DEC OS, or incubated on DEC hardware, or both. Accordingly, DEC was for many years still regarded with a certain wry affection even among many hackers too young to have grown up on DEC machines.DEC reclaimed some of its old reputation among techies in the first half of the 1990s. The success of the Alpha, an innovatively-designed and very high-performance killer micro, helped a lot. So did DEC's newfound receptiveness to Unix and open systems in general. When Compaq acquired DEC at the end of 1998 there was some concern that these gains would be lost along with the DEC nameplate, but the merged company has so far turned out to be culturally dominated by the ex-DEC side.
| Computer Abbreviations v1.5 |
DEC
Decrement + Device Clear + Digital Equipment Corporation
Decrement + Device Clear + Digital Equipment Corporation
| 9300+ Computer Acronyms |
DEC
DEvice Clear
DEvice Clear
| Uri's File.*Xten.c.ons* |
DEC
Decrement + Device Clear + Digital Equipment Corporation
Decrement + Device Clear + Digital Equipment Corporation
| Internet Glossary |
DEC
Acronym for Digital Equipment Corporation, the manufacturer of ALL-IN-1 software and of the VAX or AXP hardware it runs on. DEC is being merged with Compaq, who bought it in 1998.
Acronym for Digital Equipment Corporation, the manufacturer of ALL-IN-1 software and of the VAX or AXP hardware it runs on. DEC is being merged with Compaq, who bought it in 1998.
DEC Definition from Language, Idioms & Slang Dictionaries & Glossaries
| WordNet 2.0 |
DEC
Noun
1. (astronomy) the angular distance to a point on a celestial object measured north or south from the celestial equator; expressed in degrees; used with right ascension to specify positions on the celestial sphere
(synonym) declination, celestial latitude
(hypernym) angular distance
(classification) astronomy, uranology
Noun
1. (astronomy) the angular distance to a point on a celestial object measured north or south from the celestial equator; expressed in degrees; used with right ascension to specify positions on the celestial sphere
(synonym) declination, celestial latitude
(hypernym) angular distance
(classification) astronomy, uranology
Dec
Noun
1. the last (12th) month of the year
(synonym) December
(hypernym) Gregorian calendar month
(part-holonym) Gregorian calendar, New Style calendar
(part-meronym) New Year's Eve, December 31
| Australian Slang |
Stat dec
statutory declaration
statutory declaration
| hEnglish - advanced version |
dec
dec
n
1. the last (12th) month of the year [syn: december, dec]
2. (astronomy) the angular distance to a point on a celestial object measured north or south from the celestial equator; expressed in degrees; used with right ascension to specify positions on the celestial sphere [syn: declination, celestial latitude , dec]
similar words(2)
dec alpha
dec 25
dec
n
1. the last (12th) month of the year [syn: december, dec]
2. (astronomy) the angular distance to a point on a celestial object measured north or south from the celestial equator; expressed in degrees; used with right ascension to specify positions on the celestial sphere [syn: declination, celestial latitude , dec]
similar words(2)
dec alpha
dec 25
DEC Definition from Arts & Humanities Dictionaries & Glossaries
| JM Latin-English Dictionary |
Dec.
ADJ
December (month/mensis understood); abb. Dec.
ADJ
December (month/mensis understood); abb. Dec.
DEC Definition from Government Dictionaries & Glossaries
| International Relations and Security Acronyms |
DEC
Digital Equipment Corporation
Digital Equipment Corporation
DEC Definition from Business & Finance Dictionaries & Glossaries
| NCTS Glossary v.1.0 |
DEC
Data Circuit-terminating Equipment
Data Circuit-terminating Equipment
DEC Definition from Science & Technology Dictionaries & Glossaries
| ETSI and 3GPP |
DEC
Digital Exchange Controller
Digital Exchange Controller
| Abbreviation Airbus A340 |
DEC
Declination
Declination
| Technical English by wpv |
DEC
Digital Equipment Corporation.
Digital Equipment Corporation.
| Telecom Terms |
DEC
Digital Equipment Coperation;
DECoder
Digital Equipment Coperation;
DECoder
| U.F.O. Related Terminology and Acronyms |
DEC
Digital Equipment Corporation
Digital Equipment Corporation
DEC Definition from Encyclopedia Dictionaries & Glossaries
| Wikipedia English - The Free Encyclopedia |
Dec
DEC, dec or Dec may refer to:
- December - a month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar
- Department of Environment and Conservation
- Derwent Entertainment Centre The DEC - An entertainment centre in Hobart, Australia
- Digital Equipment Corporation - a computer and technology company, now part of HP
- Declination - a term from astronomy
- Diethylcarbamazine - a drug commonly used to treat infections by filarial parasites
- Disasters Emergency Committee -- a group of charities in the United Kingdom who coordinate disaster relief efforts
- Oratorical Declamation - an event in competitive debate
- Diplome d’Études Collegiales - a college studies diploma issued in Quebec
- DEC - ICAO airport code of Decatur Airport in Decatur, Illinois
- Declan Donnelly - a United Kingdom television presenter
- DEC - Doncaster Education City and innovative development in South Yorkshire
- Democratic Executive Committee
- DEC - Document for Executive Consideration
- DEC - Developmentally environmentally canalized
- New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC)
- Dec (in Delphi) - procedure Dec(X: integer; n: integer); decreases X by n.
- Deč, a village in Serbia.
- Francis E. Dec, a conspiracy theorist
| See more at Wikipedia.org... |
Deč
Deč is a village in Serbia. It is situated in the Pećinci municipality, in the Srem District, Vojvodina province. The village has a Serb ethnic majority and its population numbering 1,590 people (2002 census).
| See more at Wikipedia.org... |
December
December is the twelfth and last month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar and one of seven Gregorian months with the length of 31 days.
December begins (astrologically) with the sun in the sign of Sagittarius and ends in the sign of Capricorn. Astronomically speaking, the sun begins in the constellation of Ophiuchus, which is the only zodiacal constellation that is not counted as an astrological sign, and ends in the constellation of Sagittarius.
| See more at Wikipedia.org... |