Contributing to this may have been the demise of DEC, a key Modula-3 supporter (specially when it ceased to maintain it effectively any more before DEC was sold to Compaq in 1998).
造成这种情况的原因可能是DEC的消亡，这是一个关键的Modula-3支持者（特别是当它在1998年DEC被出售给康柏之前不再有效地维持它）。