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TheSystems Research Center (SRC) was a research laboratory created byDigital Equipment Corporation (DEC) in 1984, inPalo Alto,California.
DEC SRC was founded by a group of computer scientists, led byRobert Taylor, who left the Computer Science Laboratory (CSL) ofXerox PARC after an internal power struggle. SRC survived the takeover of DEC byCompaq in 1998. It was renamed to "Compaq Systems Research Center". When Compaq was acquired byHewlett-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 theModula-3 programming language; thesnoopy cache, used in the first multiprocessor workstation, theFirefly,[1] built fromMicroVAX 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 areButler Lampson,Chuck Thacker, andLeslie Lamport, all recipients of theACM A.M. Turing Award.
A later inhabitant of this building isA9.com, a research part ofAmazon.com.
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