| 1983 - 1988 |
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1983
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Bjarne Stroustrup works on the development of the
programming language C++ at AT&T Bell Labs |
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1984
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Apple introduces its
new Macintosh computer through a famous Orwellian-themed advertising
campaign that premiers during the Super Bowl. |
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1984
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Sony and Philips introduce the CD-ROM, a new means
of storing digital data that far exceeds the floppy disk's potential |
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1984
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The Last Starfighter revolutionizes the use of supercomputer-generated
graphics in movies, and the term "cyberspace" is coined by William
Gibson |
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Permission
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1984
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Desktop computer capabilities advance with Intel's
16-bit 80286 chip, created in 1982 and installed in 15 million
PCs within 6 years |
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1985
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The Cray 2 and Thinking Machines' parallel processor
Connection Machine take speed to a new level: 1 billion operations
per second. |
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1985
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Microsoft releases Windows 1.0,
eliminating the need for the C prompt (C:\). It is their first
in a series of popular operating systems criticized for their likeness
to Apple Computer's operating system |
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Permission
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1985
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Intel introduces the 80386, a 32-bit processing
chip with on-chip memory management |
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1985
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Paul Brainard creates PageMaker, and launches the
world of PC desktop publishing |
Courtesy of Cray Inc.
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1986
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Based on Seymour Cray's work, supercomputers take
another leap forward; the four-processor Cray XP executes 713 million
floating-point operations per second |
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1988
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Processing speeds reach 17 million instructions
per second with Motorola's 32-bit 88000 series of RISC microprocessors
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1988
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Robert Morris Jr. releases a
worm program into the Internet, demonstrating the need for greater
network security |
