Editing DEC Systems Research Center

{{Short description|Laboratory in Palo Alto, California}}
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[[Image:ph-landscapes-dec-src-1.jpg|frame|right|Former location of DEC SRC at 130 Lytton Ave., Palo Alto, CA.]]

The '''Systems Research Center''' ('''SRC''') was a research laboratory created by [[Digital Equipment Corporation]] (DEC) in 1984, in [[Palo Alto]], [[California]].  

DEC SRC was founded by a group of computer scientists, led by [[Robert Taylor (computer scientist)|Robert Taylor]], who left the Computer Science Laboratory (CSL) of [[Xerox PARC]] after an internal power struggle. SRC survived the takeover of DEC by [[Compaq]] in 1998. It was renamed to "Compaq Systems Research Center". When Compaq was acquired by [[Hewlett-Packard]] in 2002, SRC was merged with other HP corporate research labs and relocated there.

After Taylor's retirement, the lab was directed by Roy Levin and then by Lyle Ramshaw.

Some of the critical developments made at SRC include the [[Modula-3]] programming language; the [[snoopy cache]], used in the first multiprocessor workstation, the [[DEC Firefly|Firefly]],<ref>{{cite book |last1=Thacker |first1=Charles P. |last2=Stewart |first2=Lawrence C. |title=Proceedings of the second international conference on Architectural support for programming languages and operating systems |chapter=Firefly: A multiprocessor workstation |date=1 October 1987 |pages=164–172 |doi=10.1145/36206.36199 |doi-access=free|publisher=IEEE Computer Society Press|isbn=0818608056 }}</ref> built from [[MicroVAX 78032]] microprocessors; the first multi-threaded Unix system, Taos; the first user interface editor; early networked window systems, Trestle.  [[AltaVista]] was jointly developed by researchers from DEC's Network Systems Laboratory, Western Research Laboratory and Systems Research Center. Among the researchers at SRC, there are [[Butler Lampson]], [[Charles P. Thacker|Chuck Thacker]], and [[Leslie Lamport]], all recipients of the [[Turing Award|ACM A.M. Turing Award]].

A later inhabitant of this building is [[A9.com]], a research part of [[Amazon.com]].

==References==
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==External links==
* [https://www.hpl.hp.com/hplabs/index/Compaq-DEC/ Downloadable SRC publications]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20051122144921/http://research.compaq.com/SRC/ Archived SRC Lab site]

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