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In February Texas Instruments announced the world's fastest 32-bit floating point digital signal processor (DSP) which can deliver a peak performance of 40 million floating point operations per second (MFLOP) |
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Borland purchased dBase and Interbase software products from Asthon Tate. |
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In 1967 there were over a dozen languages in use; Ten years later only 13 survived and were still in use; In 1991 only 6 of these were in use : FORTRAN, COBOL, Lisp, APL, Snobol and BASIC. |
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Borland's Turbo Pascal for Windows, a Object Oriented programming tool. |
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MS-DOS ver. 5.0 (July) provides a new Shell, extended memory use, support for 2.88 Mb Floppy disk drives. |
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Microsoft Windows version 3.11 appears. By end of 1994 it will sell 50 million copies worldwide. Requires 4 Mb RAM and 6 Mb space on Hard Disk. |
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Microsoft ships Visual BASIC a Windows' development tool. |
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Starting with MS-DOS 5.0, Microsoft ships QBasic, an interpreter only version of Quick BASIC. |
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Microsoft's Multimedia PC standard In October, that brings multimedia capabilities to PCs. One of the first CD-ROM multimedia package was Microsoft Bookshell 1991 which includes dictionaries, Columbia Encyclopedia, the 1991 World Almanac, Atlas, etc. |
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Microsoft delivers VidCap and VidEdit, the first capture and editing tools for PC supplied with Video for Windows. |
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Gopher servers were developed to allow easiest access to Internet. It consists of a browser and a data transfer protocol. |
| Linus Torvalds, a student from Helsinki, begins writing Linux, an operating system for PCs based on Unix. |
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World Wide Web program was released for the Internet by Berners-Lee in Switzerland. WWW is a hypertext system for publishing information on the Internet. At the same time he develops the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP), Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) and the Universal Resource Locator (URL). |
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Line Mode Browser is the first browser software used in Web. It is limited to character representation of information. |
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IBM, Motorola and Apple developed Power PC processor. |
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TDK Corp. entered in CD-R industry as one of the original manufactures of CD-R media. |
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Acer designed the world's first single-chip CPU, called ChipUp. |
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IBM developed XGA (Extended Graphic Array) standard. |
| At the beginning of the year only 9% of companies have experienced a virus outbreak. By the end of the year, that figure has leaped to 63% |
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25% of the US households have a computer. |