Where are DEC (Digital/PDP) and CDC (Control Data Corporation)? What > about Cray?
DEC was bought by Compaq and merged into HP.
CDC split into two companies, Ceridian (services) and Control Data Systems (hardware). Ceridian lives on. CDS evolved into a systems integration business and was purchased by the British firm Syntegra which in turn was acquired by British Telecom.
(Extra credit: We've heard about Burroughs, Univac, and CDC. What happened to the remaining two companies of the BUNCH: NCR and Honeywell?)
Cray Research was purchased by SGI, shrunk, and then sold to Tera Computer. Tera took on the Cray name and lives on as Cray Inc. Cray still has a respectable showing on the Top 500 list of supercomputers
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A recent article reverses this and (incorrectly) claims Cray bought Tera:
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