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1985 - 1989
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1985 |
Microsoft announces Excel for the Mac. |
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1985 |
Aldus introduces the first Page Maker for 512 Kb Mac. |
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1985 |
Ansa introduces Paradox later to be bought by Borland. |
|
1985 |
Microsoft ships Windows 1.0 |
|
1985 |
Operating Systems market : |
|
1985 |
IBM, Toshiba, NEC, Fujitsu, Hitachi and Mitsubishi all report 1 Mb DRAM chips. |
|
1985 |
Steven Jobs resigns from Apple. |
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1985 |
IBM introduced its Taken Ring network. |
|
1985 |
Intel announces the 386 microprocessor. It's a fully 32-bit architecture and can address 4 Gb of physical memory and can access Virtual Memory. |
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1985 |
Toshiba introduced the fantastically successful T1100 laptop computer. |
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1985 |
A group of industry leaders including Microsoft meet to set out a standard for CD-ROM. |
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1985 |
Cray-2 supercomputer is build. |
|
1985 |
There are nearly 60 disk driver manufacturers in the market. |
|
1986 |
MS-DOS ver. 3.2 in April. Supports PC convertible, 3.5" floppies (720 Kb) and enhanced keyboards. |
|
1986 |
Microsoft introduces Works for Mac. |
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1986 |
IBM releases a Unix version called AIX. |
|
1986 |
More than 1100 applications runs on Unix based systems. |
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1986 |
IBM released IBM PC-AT 339 series based on 8 MHz Intel 80286 processor. It comes with 30 Mb Hard Drive. The AT 339 will become the most popular IBM made personal computer ever and one of the most reliable. |
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1986 |
Commodore introduced its Amiga series of microcomputers with very good graphics, sound and video capabilities. Amiga comes with 16- and 32-bit versions, Motorola 68000 processor and a multitasking operating system called Amiga DOS. |
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1986 |
Toshiba developed first Liquid- Crystal Display (LCD), an active matrix, 8 colours, 640 x 480 pixels, 10" diagonal. |
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1986 |
The first computer-expo at Hanovra CeBit with 2142 stands from over 60 countries. CeBit remains the world's biggest computer show of the year. |
|
1986 |
The first SIMM (Single In Line Memory Module) card was introduced. One of the first cards produced by NEC Electronics come in 5 configurations : 256 Kb by 4, 5, 8 or by 9-bits and 1 Mb by 1-bit. Access time 120 ns and 150 ns. |
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1986 |
Thinking Machine Corp. introduced a new Supercomputer called Connection Machine. It was a parallel computer containing more than 65000 individual processors with 4096 bits cash. It costs 3 mil. U$; A shorter version with 16384 processors cost 1 million. |
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1986 |
The little known Advanced Logic Research announces the first 386 PC: Access 386. |
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1986 |
America Online (AOL), a commercial information service is launched in US. By 1996 it had more than 5 million users worldwide. |
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1986 |
Hewlett-Packard launched its first 32-bit PA-RISC processor. |
|
1986 |
16% of the US households have a computer. |
|
1987 |
Lotus announces 1-2-3 release 3.0 |
|
1987 |
Borland acquire Ansa Software and gets Paradox. |
|
1987 |
Microsoft announces Excel for the PC, the first real Windows application. |
|
1987 |
Borland introduces Quattro. |
|
1987 |
Claris software is formed after splitting from Apple. |
|
1987 |
Microsoft, Aldus Corp., DEST Corp. and Datacopy Corp. (the latest two manufactured scanners) adopted TIFF standard. |
|
1987 |
MS-DOS ver. 3.3 (August) will become the most popular version of DOS. It supports IBM PS/2 computers and 3.5" (1.44 Mb) floppy disk drives. |
|
1987 |
Microsoft ships Windows version 2.01 featured an internal communications protocol called Dynamic Data Exchange (DDE) |
| 1987 | Brain, the first computer virus, is released. It infects the boot sector of 360KB floppy disks and uses stealth techniques to leave the computer unaware ot it. |
|
1987 |
Turbo Pascal 4 is released. |
|
1987 |
Director Comp. and Authorware Professional merged to produce a powerful company called Macromedia, specialized in authoring and multimedia software. |
|
1987 |
IBM introduced its PS/2 series of personal computers with MCA architecture. The first models, Model 50 and Model 60, used Intel 80286 processor and PS/2 Model 70 was the first based on Intel 80386 and DOS 3.3 OS. They have a IBM graphic display 8514/A. |
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1987 |
IBM introduces the VGA (Video Graphics Array) with PS/2 computers. It will became the new standard for the graphic computers. |
|
1987 |
In March Apple's Macintosh II introduces easy Plug-and-Play expansion. |
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1987 |
10,000 hosts on Internet. |
|
1987 |
Western Digital introduces the IDE Disk Drive which will became the standard for the next 7 years. |
|
1987 |
Adobe introduces Adobe Illustrator a software designed for professional graphics designers. |
|
1987 |
18% of the US households have a computer. |
|
1988 |
Asthon-Tate ships dBASE IV |
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1988 |
IBM and Microsoft ship OS/2 1.1 with Presentation Manager. Requires a minimum 286 microprocessor, 4 Mb RAM and 8 Mb space on Hard Disk. |
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1988 |
IBM released AIX/370. Will be on the market in 1990. |
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1988 |
Microsoft began working on a network operating system called NT (New Technology) |
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1988 |
MS-DOS ver. 4.0 (August) introduces DOS shell, large Hard Disk partitions with up to 512 Mb. |
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1988 |
Gateway were the first computers manufacturer which introduce EGA colour monitors as standard on all systems. |
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1988 |
Maxtor introduced the first magneto-optical rewritable disk drive. |
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1988 |
Intel ships the 386SX microprocessor, a slowdown version of DX. |
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1988 |
VESA (Video Electronic Standard Association) promoted Super VGA graphic cards. |
|
1988 |
The EISA 32-bit bus is announced. |
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1988 |
CD-R defined by Orange Book specification, developed by Sony and Philips. |
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1988 |
Sun Microsystems specified SPARC (Scalable Processor ARChitecture) one of the early RISC technology. |
| 1988 | The first antivirus software is released by an Indonesian programmer. |
|
1988 |
Internet consists of more than 60,000 computers. |
|
1988 |
Cray Y-MP supercomputer is build. |
|
1988 |
20% of the US households have a computer. |
|
1989 |
Lotus ships its 1-2-3 rel 3.0 with 3-D graphics capabilities. |
|
1989 |
Borland unveils Paradox 3.0 |
|
1989 |
Adobe announces Adobe Type Manager |
|
1989 |
Novell unveils NetWare 386 |
|
1989 |
IBM and Microsoft announces OS/2 1.2 |
| 1989 | IBM releases the first commercial antivirus product. Intensive antivirus research commences. |
|
1989 |
Borland announces Turbo Pascal 5.5 with object-oriented extension. |
|
1989 |
Microsoft ships Excel for OS/2, the first OS/2 spreadsheet program. |
|
1989 |
C++ 2.0 appears. |
|
1989 |
More than 3,000 applications run on Unix based systems, over 1 mil. Unix installations (18% of the market) |
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1989 |
IBM introduced in February the first RISC System / 6000 series of workstations. |
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1989 |
Intel ships its first superscalar RISC processor i860. It also announce the i486. |
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1989 |
Compaq introduces the first non-interlaced monitor. |
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1989 |
Kodak Company enter in CD-R industry producing CD-R media. |
|
1989 |
Intel ships in August the new processor Intel 80486. |
|
1989 |
Mouse devices sales this year totaled 3.2 mil. units in US and 5.5 mil. units worldwide. |
|
1989 |
Corel Corporation established in Canada in November. |
|
1989 |
Cray-3 supercomputer is build. |
| 1989 | Over 100,000 Internet hosts. |
|
1989 |
21% of the US households have a computer. |