[1] : WordNet (r) 2.0

dec
     n 1: the last 12th month of the year syn: december
     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
see also:
december declination celestial latitude 

[2] : Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002)

dec
     digital equipment corporation manufacturer
     
     

[3] : Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001)

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 `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.


see also:
inc killer micro tmrc pdp-10 pdp-20 vax 
silicon killer micro 

[4] : The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03)

dec
     
        digital equipment corporation
     
     
see also:
digital equipment corporation 

[5] : The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03)

dec
     
         /dek/ decrement, decrease by one.  especially
        used by assembly language programmers, as many assembly
        languages have a "dec" mnemonic.
     
        opposite: inc.
     
        jargon file
     
     
see also:
assembly language mnemonic inc jargon file 

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