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Pual Otlet creates the mundotheque or a mult-media workstation.
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Wrote a paper outlining the arichteture of a storage-program computer, including electronic storage of programming information and data.
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MIT's Computation Center under the direction of Ferdnando Corbato develope the Compatible Time-Sharing System allowing multiple users on one computer.
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CDC or Control Data Corperation 6600 is created and it can run 3 million instructions per minute, three times faster than its competitor the IBM 7030
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Data General designs the Nova minicomputer, it had 32 KB of memory and went for about $8,000 designed by Ed de Castro.
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Gary Kildall and his wife the first commercially succesful operating system for microcomputers, allowing one version of a program to be run on a variety of computers built around an eight-bit microprocessors.
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Apple releases the Lisa computer which had the first commercial pesonal computer with a graphical user interface or GUI.
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British scientist Stephen Wolfram creats mathematica a mathematical programming language, it was a compete ecosytem for computing that allowed symbolic entry of mathematical function and equations.
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DEC annouces Alpha chip architecture which has a 64-bit reduced instruction set omputer microprocessor and it replacede the 32-bit VAX architecture.
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Google is the first mejaor web company to float a publicly traded stock since the go-go days of the dot-com boom.
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The Adobe Creative Cloud is announced as a subscription and cloud-based model of distribution for its major software products.
