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DEC, dec or Dec may refer to:

December - a month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar
Department of Environment and Conservation
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, Illinois, US
Declan Donnelly - a United Kingdom television presenter
DEC - Doncaster Education City and innovative development in South Yorkshire
DontEatCats - a moderator on sleepywood.net forums
Democratic Exectutive Commitee

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Category: Lists of three-character combinations Look up December in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... The Department of Environment and Conservation is a department of the Government of Western Australia that is responsible for implementing the states conservation and environment policies. ... Digital Equipment Corporation was a pioneering company in the American computer industry. ... In astronomy, declination (dec) is one of the two coordinates of the equatorial coordinate system, the other being either right ascension or hour angle. ... Diethylcarbamazine (DEC) is an anthelmintic drug that does not resemble other antiparasitic compounds. ... Filariasis is a parasitic and infectious tropical disease, caused by the thread-like parasitic filarial worms, Wuchereria bancrofti, Brugia malayi, and Brugia timori, all transmitted by mosquitoes. ... The Disasters Emergency Committee is an umbrella group of several UK charities. ... Debate or debating is a formal method of interactive and position representational argument. ... A Diplome dÃ‰tudes Collegiales, or DEC, is the degree awarded to students who have succesfully completed their CEGEP, or college, courses in the Canadian province of Quebec. ... The ICAO airport code (IPA pronunciation: ) is a four-letter alphanumeric code designating each airport around the world. ... The Decatur Transfer House in the background with a newly completed fountain in the foreground. ... Ant (left) and Dec appearing in an ITV 1 ident. ... Image File history File links Disambig_gray. ...

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Digital Equipment Corporation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (2430 words)
	In 1983, DEC cancelled their "Jupiter" project, which had been intended to build a successor to the PDP-10, and instead focused on promoting the VAX as their flagship model.
	DEC tried to compete in the Unix market by marketing the VMS operating system as "OpenVMS" and by selling their own Unix (OSF/1 AXP, later renamed Digital UNIX), and it began to advertise more aggressively.
	DEC was simply not prepared to sell into a crowded Unix market however, and furthermore the low end PC-servers running NT (based on Intel processors) took marketshare from Alpha-based computers.

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