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    Information Research Services Updated: 30 January 1998
         
             
                 
              February:
DIGITAL announces
Alpha, its program for 21st-century computing.
                 
              May:
DIGITAL provides computer systems and software to the
America3 Foundation racing team for its defense of the Americas Cup in San Diego, California.
                 
              July:
DIGITAL announces the
VAX 7000.
                 
              September:
DIGITAL introduces the
DECpc LP series, the company's first internally designed, internally manufactured, industry-compatible PCs.
                 
              November:
DIGITAL introduces
Alpha 64-bit computing with five new workstations and servers, the OpenVMS operating system, multiple compilers and networks, and new open business practices.
                     
              November:
DIGITAL releases
OpenVMS/AXP V1.0 as part of its Alpha family of products.
                     
              DIGITAL installs the industry's first commercial Internet firewall.