What led to the decline of DEC in the early 1990s?
The rise of smartphones
The introduction of RISC-based workstations
The dot-com bubble
The Y2K bug
Answer
The introduction of RISC-based workstations and the improvement of microcomputers in the late 1980s eroded the performance niche of the minicomputer, leading to a decline in DEC's mini sales and eventually the company's turmoil in the early 1990s.
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