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    Information Research Services Updated: 30 January 1998
         
             
              February:
DIGITAL announces the
TK50 cartridge tape drive.
                     
              April:
DIGITAL announces the
Rdb relational database management system.
                 
              April:
Introduction of the
VAX-11/785, the most powerful single computer to date in DIGITAL's VAX family.
                 
              June:
DIGITAL introduces
ULTRIX-32, the first native UNIX from DIGITAL for the VAX family of systems.
                 
              September:
VMS V4 ships.
                     
              October:
Announcement of the
VAX 8600, the first of a new generation of computers within the VAX family and, at the time, the highest performance computer system in DIGITAL's history.
                 
              October:
Introduction of the
VAXstation I, the company's first 32-bit single-user workstation.