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| • | DECUS was the Digital Equipment Computer User Society, founded in 1961. DECUS was aimed at business customers of the Digital Equipment Corporation.
The DECUS U.S. Chapter conducted technical conferences at various U.S. locations, and ran other operations like Local User Groups (LUGs) and Special Interest Groups. DECUS also promoted the open exchange of user-developed software.
DECUS played a critical role in the development of computer games in North America in the 1970s. The pioneering titles Adventure by Will Crowther; Baseball, Dungeon and Star Trek by Don Daglow and Hunt the Wumpus by Gregory Yob provided a foundation for the games industry. Major commercial game titles including Zork were first popularized by DECUS.
The PLATO system performed the same function on CDC computers during the decade.
In 1998, Compaq acquired Digital, and DECUS became a Compaq user group.
In 2000, the DECUS U.S. Chapter incorporated as the independent user group Encompass.
Source: [wikipedia: decus]
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