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3D rendering of a car in CAD software with boundary representation. Also important to the development of CAD was the development in the late 1980s and early 1990s of B-rep solid modeling kernels (engines for manipulating geometrically and topologically consistent 3D objects), Parasolid (ShapeData), and ACIS (Spatial Technology Inc.). These ...
1979 Stroustrup, Bjarne: Invented C++ at Bell Labs 1963 Sutherland, Ivan: Author of Sketchpad, the ancestor of modern computer-aided drafting (CAD) programs and one of the early examples of object-oriented programming. 1986 Tarjan, Robert: Fundamental achievements in the design and analysis of algorithms and data structures. 1973 Thacker ...
Event Oct 1970: US First dynamic RAM chip introduced by Intel. It was called the 1103 and had a capacity of 1 Kbit, 1024 bits. 1970: US Programming language Forth developed. A simple, clean, stack-based design, which later inspired PostScript and the Java virtual machine. 1971: US CTC ships the Datapoint 2200, a mass-produced programmable terminal.
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The 1970s was also the beginning of the video game era. Atari established itself as the dominant force in home video gaming, first with its home version of the arcade game Pong and later in the decade with the Atari 2600 console (originally called the "VCS", or Video Computer System). By 1979, the scene was set for the Golden Age of Arcade Games.
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RUCAPS (Really Universal Computer-Aided Production System) is a computer-aided design (CAD) system for architects, first developed during the 1970s and 1980s, and today credited as a forerunner of building information modeling (BIM). It runs on minicomputers from Prime Computer and Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC).
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