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474 Megabyte hard disk drives.
In October 1991, MIPS Computer Systems introduced the first commercially available 64-bit microprocessor, the MIPS R4000.
In December 1979, the Xerox Alto was seen by a team led by Steve Jobs
Aldus PageMaker,
Hewlett-Packard had introduced the HP LaserJet printer in May 1984 which also used the Canon engine,
LaserWriter would be the first to support the new PostScript page description language from Xerox PARC spin-out Adobe Systems.
BASIC (Beginners All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) was designed in 1964 by two academics from Dartmouth College in New Hampshire, John G Kemeny and Thomas E Kurtz.
In March 1988, Apple filed a copyright infringement lawsuit accusing both Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard of copying the “look and feel” of the Macintosh user interface in Windows 2.0 and HP’s NewWave, an object-oriented graphical desktop environment based on Windows.
Apple had copyrighted the Lisa Desktop and Macintosh Finder program in May 1987.
Microsoft’s lawyers also pointed out that Apple’s user interface technology had actually originated at Xerox PARC, a move which roused slumbering giant Xerox into filing its own lawsuit against Apple in December 1989.
Xerox accused Apple of unfair competition for having infringed the copyright on the Xerox 8010 Star software and was seeking $150 million in royalties and damages.
Following a protracted legal battle, Apple’s case against Microsoft was eventually thrown out in May 1993.
Microsoft had introduced a new version of Windows aimed at unleashing the full performance of the PC architecture by breaking through a barrier imposed by the BIOS which limited memory to 640 Kilobytes.
Released in May 1990 at the slightly higher price of $149, or $50 to upgrade from a previous version, Windows 3.0 offered three different memory modes depending on which processor in the 80x86 family it was running on,
It was also the first version of Windows to be supplied pre-installed on new computers through an OEM distribution arrangement with PC manufacturers.
Windows 3.0 sold 2 million copies within the first 6 months of release.
By the end of 1990 Microsoft had achieved $1 billion in annual revenues.
Multimedia support was added in April 1992 with the release of Windows 3.1. This was followed six months later by the release of Windows for Workgroups 3.1 which added inte...
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By April 1993 total sales of Windows 3.x had exceeded 2...
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sales of OS/2 were languishing below the 1 million mark, hamstrung...
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poor MS-DOS compatibility and a confusing name which suggested it was only compatible with th...
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end of 1988 when David N Cutler arrived at Microsoft. Cutler was the principal architect of DEC’s much admired
minicomputer operating system VMS (Virtual Memory System) and had acquired a reputation as an exceptional software engineer with a ruthless work ethic.
When Mosaic was introduced in 1993, the number of Internet users was estimated at just over 14 million. By July 2014 this had grown to nearly 3 billion, which is around 40% of the world’s population.
As a result, the future of the industry is now back in the hands of the hardware manufacturers.
the acquisition of the mobile phone business of Finnish telecommunications corporation Nokia in April 2014.
always-on Internet connection has radically altered the way in which society uses and considers computers,
