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Severe Tire Damage made the first live music performance on the Internet, using MBone technology. July 27, 1993 Microsoft released the Windows NT 3.1 operating system that supported 32-bit programs. December 10, 1993 Doom was released by id Software.
Cambridge Computer. Cambridge Z88; Camputers Lynx; CAP computer; Commodore Amiga 600 (A600) - Assembled in a former Timex factory in Scotland. Commodore Amiga 1200 - Assembled in a former Timex factory in Scotland. Compukit UK101; Dragon 32/64; Elliott Brothers (computer company) Enterprise (computer) Ferranti MRT; Flex machine; Gemini ...
R2E CCMC Portal laptop. The portable microcomputer "Portal", of the French company R2E Micral CCMC, officially appeared in September 1980 at the Sicob show in Paris.The Portal was a portable microcomputer designed and marketed by the studies and developments department of the French firm R2E Micral in 1980 at the request of the company CCMC specializing in payroll and accounting.
Sold computer division to Control Data Corporation [6] BiiN — United States: 1982: 1990: Liquidation: Billings Computer — United States: 1977: Unknown: Unknown: Blue Chip Electronics — United States: 1981: 1989: Acquired by Capewood Limited: Burroughs Corporation — United States: 1953: 1986: Merged with Sperry Corporation to form ...
The vast majority of laptops on the market are manufactured by a small handful of Taiwan-based original design manufacturers (ODM), although their production bases are located mostly in mainland China. Quanta Computer pioneered the contract manufacturing of laptops in 1988. By 1990, Taiwanese companies manufactured 11% of the world's laptops.
DYSEAC - an early machine capable of distributing computing; 1955 General Motors Operating System made for IBM 701 [2] MIT's Tape Director operating system made for UNIVAC 1103 [3] [4] 1956 GM-NAA I/O for IBM 704, based on General Motors Operating System; 1957 Atlas Supervisor (Manchester University) (Atlas computer project start)
Third-generation computers were offered well into the 1990s; for example the IBM ES9000 9X2 announced April 1994 [30] used 5,960 ECL chips to make a 10-way processor. [31] Other third-generation computers offered in the 1990s included the DEC VAX 9000 (1989), built from ECL gate arrays and custom chips, [32] and the Cray T90 (1995).
In the early 1990s, the CD-ROM became an industry standard, and by the mid-1990s one was built into almost all desktop computers, and toward the end of the 1990s, in laptops as well. Although introduced in 1982, the CD ROM was mostly used for audio during the 1980s, and then for computer data such as operating systems and applications into the ...