For its part, Honeywell has been approved to provide the Soviet ministry the technical data supporting its TDC 3000 system, a microprocessor-based digital electronic system for industrial process controls.
Competition on the Internet is just a click away and venture capitalists are continually funding new dynamic startups (which is not the case in the microprocessor or operating system markets).
DEC's high-end workstations and the servers that use its blazingly fast Alpha 64-bit microprocessor and run on the Unix operating system open up new markets for Compaq.