1991 Timeline

|  | Information Research Services | Updated: 30 January 1998

|  |  |  |  |  |  |  | DIGITAL is the first in the industry to offer an Internet tunnel product.
|  |  |  |  |  |  |  | DIGITAL ships the EZ51 high performance Solid State Disk.
|  |  |  |  |  |  |  | June: DIGITAL announces Open Advantage, a worldwide corporate strategy to establish DIGITAL as the industry leader in developing open solutions that give customers the freedom to choose and the power to use the highest-quality applications available at the best price.
|  |  |  |  |  |  |  | June: DIGITAL introduces DECnet Phase V, which supports OSI standards and networks of essentially unlimited size.
|  |  |  |  |  |  |  | September: The industry's first implementation of an object request broker is shipped under the name Application Control Architecture (ACA) services.
|  |  |  |  |  |  |  | November: The NVAX chip, DIGITAL's fourth VAX microprocessor, is implemented in 0.75-micrometer CMOS technology and ships in the VAX 6600.
|  |  |  |  |  |  |  | November: DIGITAL and Microsoft announce an alliance allowing Microsoft Windows to retrieve and exchange data with local area network servers running DIGITAL PATHWORKS software.
|  |  |  |  |  |  |  | November: DIGITAL releases VMS V5.5.