1623 years: German scientists Janacek Ghat (W.. Schickard) created the human history of the first mechanical computer, this machine is capable of performing six-digit add, subtract, multiply and divide operations.
1642: French scientist Pascal (B.. Pascal) Pascal invented the famous mechanical computer, the first time established a computer device concept. .
1674: Leibniz improved Pascal computer and turn it into a continuous operation of the machine, and made a number of "binary". (It is said that this concept originated in China, Bagua).
1725: French textile mechanic Bucho (B.. Bouchon) invented the "perforated paper" concept. .
1805: France mechanic Jaccard (J. .Jacquard) according to the Chief Joe "punched" conception of the "auto complete" Jacquard weaving machine, the design and manufacture of electronic computers in later began to develop in the first few years in several famous computer we can find the figure of automatic Jacquard machine.
1822: British scientist Babbage (C.. Babbage) created the first difference engine, which can handle three different 5-digit, the accuracy of 6 decimal places. .
1834: Barbados Beach offers analysis of the machine concept, the machine is divided into three parts: the stacks, calculator, controller. His assistant, Britain's only daughter of the famous poet Byron? Augusta ADA (Ada Augusta) analysis of the machines produced in the human history of the first computer program.
Ada and Babbage for the development of computers has created immortal, they expected at least ahead of the computer for more than a century, it is their hard work, for the later emergence of the computer has laid a solid foundation. .
1847: British mathematician Boolean (G. .Boole) published the book "the logic of mathematical analysis.
1852: Ada? Augusta (Ada Augusta) died at the age of 36 years of age. .
1854: Boolean released the thinking patterns of?? Logic and probability theory foundations of mathematics, and integrated their own another article of the logic of mathematical analysis, thereby creating a new subject-Boolean algebra, for one hundred years after the digital computer switch circuit design provides important mathematical methods and theoretical basis.
1868: American journalist Christopher? Shoals (C.. Sholes) invented the QWERTY keyboard used since. .
1871: the computer industry devoted of Barbados Beach (C.. Babbage). He envisaged with the ADA's analysis did not come out at the end of the machine, but the left a valuable heritage, that is the face of difficulties, perseverance, and the dozens of designs and programs.
1873: American Baldwin (F.. Baldwin) to use their past inventions of the number of teeth variable gear built the first hand computers. .
1886: Americans Dorr E.. Felt (1862-1930), produced the first key operations calculator.
1890: The United States in the 12th census used by the statisticians Hollerith (H.. Hollerith), Dr invented tabulating machine, which completed the first time in human history, large-scale data processing. This 后霍列瑞斯 according to their invention of the tabulating machine set up their own company, and eventually evolved into IBM. .
1891: Leland Stanford, together with his wife's estate near Palo-Alto (Palo Alto) introduced 8,000 acres of Stanford University, thus contributing to the future of Silicon Valley to lay the birth.
1893: German Stajgr developed called "Big Spender" computer, the computer is in the hand based on the improvement of computers from, and rely on good computing speed and reliability of the occupation at the time market until 1914, before the outbreak of World War I, this "Big Spender" computer has been selling well. .
1895: the British young engineer Flemming (J.. Fleming) through the "Edison effect" invented the first tube of mankind.
[Tube era: 1911?? 1946]. .
1911: June 15, the American Wall Street financial investment home Flint (C. .Flent) investment of Huo column Reyes tabulators, established a new company, but the company CTR created does not get involved in any electronic field production, on the contrary, such as the shredder or potatoes machine like the product.
1912: American inventor De Young? Forrest (L.. De Forest) in Palo Alto town for the first time found the amplification tube, laid the foundation for the electronics industry, and today's Palo Alto the town has become the heart of Silicon Valley. .
1913: Massachusetts Institute of technology Professor million? Bush (V. .Bush) leading manufacturing the analog computer "differential analyser". The machine employs a range of motor driving, the use of gear rotation angle to simulation results.
1924: Father of Silicon Valley serves as the Stanford University professor, to create the HP, Stanford Industrial Park was established to play a decisive role. .
2-column by Joel Reyes was founded by tabulators several times, it was renamed IBM, IBM we see today.
1935: IBM punch cards produced IBM601 computers, the computer can calculate in one second multiplication. .
1936: Alan Turing published papers. "." on Computable numbers and in determining the issue of "first sets out the principle of the modern computer, theoretically proved that the modern possibility of the existence of a universal computer, the Turing put people in the work into simple actions, and calculations, the machine requires: (1) memory used to store calculated results; (2) a language, meaning that operations and numbers; and (3) scan; (4) calculation of interest, that is, in the next step is going to do; (5) the next step. Specific to the step of computing, is further divided into: (1) change the number of available symbols; (2) scan area changes, such as adding left turn right into the bit and bit and so on; (3) the intention of changing the calculation. The calculation using the binary system, which is later people called "Turing machine." .
20-year-old German engineers Chukchi (K. .Zuse) developed a mechanical programmable Z1 computer and uses a binary form, its theoretical foundation is derived from the Boolean algebra.
1937: in November, the United States AT & T Bell Labs researchers Sidibizi (G.. Stibitz) created electromagnetic digital computer "Model-K". .
1938: Claude? El wood? Shannon (Claude Elwood Shannon) published his famous theses of the relays and switch circuit symbol analysis "for the first time using Boolean algebra on switching circuit for the relevant analysis, demonstrating that can relay circuit to achieve Boolean algebra logical operations and provides implementation, minus, times, and so on operation of electronic circuit design methods. This essay as a switching circuit theory in the beginning.
1939: New Year's Day, Stanford University graduate student Bill? Hewlett (B.. Hewllet) and David? Packard (D.. Packard) officially signed a partnership agreement business, founded Hewllet-Packard (HP) company, country known as the Hewlett-Packard. .
In September, Bell Laboratories developed M-1-type computer.
In October, John. . Atanasoff (John Vincent Atanasoff (1903-1995)) created the world-famous ABC computer was the first prototype, and made the computer's three principles (1) to the binary logic-based approach to digital computing to ensure accuracy; (2) the use of electronic technology to achieve control, logical and arithmetic operations to ensure the speed of calculation; (3) using the computing power and storage features updated binary phase separation structure. This is the famous three principles of the computer. .
1940: in September, Bell Laboratories in the United States, Dartmouth University presentation-M 1. They used the telegraph line in the campus of M? 1-machine and connected to a mathematical problem on the spot to print it out and transferred to New York, M? 1-machine at Dartmouth University's success, the first human to computer for remote control of dreams.
The father of cybernetics Wiener proposed five principles of computer, (1) is not analog, but digital; (2) from electronic component composition, to minimize the mechanical components; (3) binary, not decimal; (4) computation of internal storage; (5) in computer data storage. .
1941: zh Z3 has completed the development of a computer, this is the first one programmable electronic computer. May deal with 7-bit exponent, 14-bit decimal. Use a large number of vacuum tubes. Every second for 3 to 4 times the addition operation that a multiplications need 3 to 5 seconds.
1942: then-Iowa State University professor of mathematical physics Atanasoff (John V.. Atanasoff) and the Graduate Berry (Clifford Berry) assembly of the famous ABC (Atanasoff-Berry Computer) computers were used more than 300 tubes, which is the world's first prototype of the computer has a modern computer. However, because the U.S. government official to participate in the Second World War, with the result that the computer has not really put into operation. .
1943: Bell Labs to u-relay mount computer equipment, manufactured by M 2-machine, this is the oldest one of computer programming. The next two years, Bell Labs have developed a computerized M-3 and M-4, but are similar, only M-2 is storage capacity greater number.
October, nicknamed the "giants" used to crack German code of a computer manufacturer in the United Kingdom Buleiqilai estate success, since they create more than one, the victory of World War II has achieved a lot. .
1944: August 7, funded by IBM, American Hopi Dehua? Aiken (H. .Aiken) is responsible for the development of DM 1 computer at Harvard University official, it is equipped with 15 000 components and up to 800 kilometres of wires per minute to be able to more than 200 times. Female mathematician grace? hob (G.. Hopper) as it has developed a calculation program, and declare that the computer can be the solution of differential equations. Mark 1, the advent of computers has not only made long to Babbage's, but also represents the Pascal computer came from computer and electrical machinery the highest level of the computer. .
1946: 14 February, the American University of Pennsylvania Professor Moore College (MO Qi Li J.. Mauchiy) and Eckert (J. .Eckert) jointly developed the ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer): the computer. This computer to install the 17,468 tubes in total, 7200 diodes, more than 70,000 resistors, 10,000 capacitors and 6000 more than two relays, circuit weld up to 50 million, the machine is installed in a row 2. .75-Meter-high metal cabinets, covers an area of 170 square meters, total weight 30 tons, its operation speed of 5,000 times per second addition, you can in 3 / 1000 seconds in the completion of two 10-digit multiplication. .
[Transistor era: 1947?? 1958].
1947: December 23, Bell Labs, Shockley (William B.. Shockley), Bratton (John Bardeen), Badin (Walter H.. Brattain) to create the world's first semiconductor amplifier parts They will be re-named this device "transistor." .
From top to bottom: Shockley, bradon and Bardeen.
1948: June 10, Shannon, "Bell System Technical Journal" (Bell System Technical Journal) published in installments on reaching his image paper "Mathematical theory of communication" and the following year in the same magazine published his own Another well-known paper, "Noise of communication." In these two papers, Shannon explained the basic problem of communication, given the communication system model, the mathematical expression of the amount of information, and solve the channel capacity, source statistical properties of source coding, channel coding, etc. a series of basic technical problems.Two papers become information theory of literature, this lack of fashion a 30-year-old Shannon has also become the founder of information theory.
December, ENAIC co-founder of the two founders of the world's first computer company, "Eckert? Moqi Li Computer" (EMCC). .
MO Qi Li. ..
Eckert. .
1949: when fashion in Harvard computer laboratory of the Shanghai Chinese students studying in the United States Patent Office whose application for a patent of the cores.
Bell Labs created the last M series computer model: M-6, and from the computer is not involved in the development and production. Bell Labs developed by the M series relay computer, the computer from the mechanical waves to the computer through an important bridge. .
In September, the "mark" 3, the successful development of the computer, the "mark" 3, also is Dehua? Aiken developed the first memory that large computer, he installed the first to use the drum as the number and instructions for storage, this is a computer in the history of a major improvement from the drum to become the first generation of vacuum tubes, widely used in the computer memory.
Cambridge University Mathematical Laboratory of Wilkes and his team built a computer program stored EDSAC, paper tape input and output device is still. .
1950: Tokyo Imperial University of Yoshiro Nakamats invented the floppy disk, thereby creating a new era of computer storage.
October, Alan. . Turing published his important papers and the other a "machine you can think", which laid the foundation for the artificial intelligence, Turing also received the "father of artificial intelligence" in the world. Some people even say that the first generation of computer-dominated era, this thesis, we can see it as the fifth and sixth generation computers declaration. .
1951: 14 June at Remington-Rand (Remington-Rand) company of the lease and Eckert once again joining manufacturing UNIVAC computer into the United States Census Bureau, so that the computer out of the lab and started the service of human social, human society enters the computer age.
June, Wang founded Wang Laboratories, the predecessor of the Wang computer company, and embarked on the legendary history of Wang Laboratories. .
1952: 1 month, the father of the computer?, von Neumann (Von Neumann) design of the IAS computer EDVAC. The IAS computer uses a total of 300 tubes, operation speed than with 18000 tubes "ENI AK" increase 10 times, Feng? Neumann's ideas on this computer, the embodiment of the outcome.
1953: April 7, IBM officially released its first electronic computer IBM701. And invited von? Neumann, Shockley, and Oppenheimer, and others of 150 celebrities attended the opening ceremony of the first computer for their own publicity. .
In August, IBM released the application and the accounting profession IBM702 computer.
1954: June 8, Alan. . Turing's death. .
IBM introduced a medium-sized computer IBM650 for low prices and superior performance in the market for a great success, now that IBM had established a market leader.
Bell Labs transistor assembled using the 800 world's first transistor computer TRADIC. .
1956: us $ todtmoos University (Dartmouth) young assistants McCarthy, Harvard University, Kaminski, Bell Labs Shannon (E. .Shannon) and IBM Information Center Rochester (N.. Lochester) in todtmoos University organized a salon-style academic conferences, they invited the Carnegie Mellon University buildings Newell and Herbert Simon, MIT? Safra Ridge (O.. Selfridge) and Solomon (R. .Solomamff), as well as IBM Samuel (A.. Samuel) and Moore (T.. More). This is the famous "Datemosi" meetings. After full discussion, they first proposed the "artificial intelligence" of the term, which marks the Artificial Intelligence as the emergence of a new discipline. .
In September, IBM engineering group, show the world the first disk storage system IBM RAMAC 350 (Random Access Method of Accounting and Control).
1957: in August, "Digital Equipment Corporation" (the DEC) was established in Boston. Founders came from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Ken? Olsen (K.. Olsen). The next few years, DEC's PDP series of companies rely on their own, creating a minicomputer era. .
In October, according to (Nua N.. Noyce), Moore (R. .Moore), Blanc (J. .Blank), Claire (E. .Kliner), hull, (J. .Hoerni) and Rast (J. .Last), Roberts (S. .Boberts) and Gerry Nick (V.. Grinich) jointly from the Father of Shockley Transistor Laboratory exodus, founder of the Fairchild (fairchild) company, this is the history of the famous "Eight days rebellious," From then on, only the familiar intel, AMD, IDT, etc. a large number of companies we are familiar. .
Eight days of two important figures, Norris and Moore.
1958: November, IBM launched its own IBM709 mainframe computers, when IBM, the most outstanding performance from the IBM701 tube has a computer, but it is also the final of a tube IBM computer. .
[IC era: 1959?? 1970].
1959: February 6, has been developed from the first transistor radio in TI's Kilby (J.. Kilby) with the U.S. Patent Office patent applications, "Semiconductor integrated circuits." .
July 30, children and the US Patent Office patent "semiconductor integrated circuit".
1960: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Professor Joseph? Licklider (J.. Licklider) published the famous computer research paper, "human-machine symbiosis", which put forward the concept of time-sharing operating system, and the first realization of a computer network vision. .
1962: he Lande's Paul? Balaam published a landmark significance of academic report on distributed communications ", in the article he first proposed the" distributed adaptive information blocks-Exchange ", this is what we now call" packet-switched communications technology ".
1963: August, Control Data Corporation (CDC), Simon? Cray (S.. Cray) Dr. R & D team to lead their own supercomputer developed CDC6600, CDC6600 is still a second-generation computer, the installation of 35 million transistors . .
1964: 7 April, on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the IBM by only 40-year-old Jean? Eminem Dar (G.. Amdahl) as the primary Designer, took four years of research and development of IBM360 computer, marks the end of the third generation of computer full debut, and this is IBM's history as the most successful models.
1965: DEC introduced the PDP-8-based computer, marking the minicomputer era. .
When fashion in children and the company's Moore published only a three-page paper, this is the future semiconductor development has a far-reaching "Moore's law".
1966: U.S. Defense Advanced Research Planning time is (ARPA) Information Processing Technology Office (IPTO) director Bob? Taylor started the "Apache" (ARPA) network of research projects. Although he has been emphasizing in retrospect, "ARPANET" network itself is not used for military purposes, but his department is the product of the Cold War. .
1968: IBM company first introduced the "Winchester/Winchester" technology, explore the major renovation of the hard disk technology do..
In April, "General Data Company" (hereinafter referred to DGC) was established, founder of artificial separation from the DEC's PDP-8 designer Castro. .
July 18, resigned from the children and the company. Moore, Gordon (Gordon. .Moore) Robert. Neus (Robert. .Noyce), William Shockley.. (William. .Shockley) co-founded Intel company, for the development of computers and diffusion of present.
December 9, University of California, Englebart (Douglas Englebart) Dr. invented the world's first mouse. It works the ball through the bottom of the rolling pivot drive and drive to change the resistance of rheostat to generate displacement signals, signal processing by computer, the screen cursor can be moved.Dr. Enrique Grau, bad design of the original mouse is to adopt such a simple way to replace cumbersome keyboard operation, but the mouse was born the first 10 years, people are not aware of which simplicity until 1984 Apple Macintosh was born before changing the stereotypes.
(Another way of saying to Dr. Englebart invented in 1964 the world's first mouse, and in 1968 the IEEE conference officially announced his invention.). .
1969: DGC company launched their own Nova minicomputer, success has been driven by DEC dominated minicomputer market, and became the most flourishing emerging enterprises.
Bell Labs ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie in a PDP-7 on the development of the Unix operating system. .
1 may, Saunders (Jerry Sanders) resigned from the children and the company, and founded by ten million AMD company.
October 29, ARPANET University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Stanford Research Institute and the node (SRI) nodes to achieve the first packet switching technology, remote communications, which also marked the official birth of the Internet. .
1970: first introduced the concept of "compatibility" of IBM360 Father Jean? Eminem Dar (G.. Amdahl) due to the continued development of IBM mainframe vetoed the plan while leaving IBM and founded the Amdahl Corporation, began in IBM mainframes to issue a challenge. Although he would shortly thereafter had lost control of the company, but he had founded the trilogy, Grid company and CDS Inc., but were unsuccessful. Eminem Dar I eventually died in 1996.
October, Xerox (Xerox) Palo Alto in Silicon Valley today, set up the Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) research center, Xerox and more importantly, the scientists have not come here to study the formulation of any plan Instead, they were free to play.In the next few years, PARC was born Ethernet, mouse, faces, objects, icons, menus, Windows and change the future direction of the brand-new computer concepts, as well as indirect incubation Office for Windows, Macintosh, etc, landmark software works, from out of scientists also founded 3Com, Adobe, Novell, and so on to change the world of enterprise IT.
[Microprocessor Age: 1971?? 1979]. .
1971: from the e-news reporter Don Havre (Don Hoefler) on the basis of semiconductor Silicon in which named at the Palo Alto area, called the Silicon Valley.
January, INTEL's Ted. . Hoff developed the first one to actually work the microprocessor 4004, the processor in an area of about 12 square millimeter chip has 2250 transistors, more than enough computing power ENICA. Intel in the same year on November 15 officially announced this processor. .
1972: a ever developed the Unix operating system developed by Dennis Ritchie led the C language.
Former CDC's Simon? Clay (S.. Cray) was founded, Dr. alone, "Cray Research", focus on the supercomputer field. .
1973: May 22 by Xerox PARC Research Center of Bob? Metcalf (Bob Metcalfe) established the world's first personal computer local area network--ALTO ALOHA network began formal operation, Metcalfe is the network changed its name to the "Ethernet".
1974:. .
April 1, Intel introduced its first 8-bit microprocessor chip 8080.
December, computer enthusiasts Edward? Roberts (E.. Roberts) released their 8080 processor produced by a computer equipped with "Altair", which is equipped with the world's first microprocessor computer, from opening a PC off. .
1975: Cray completed its first "Cray Supercomputer" No. 1 (CARY-1), achieved a 100 million times per second. It covers less than 7 square metres, the weight of not more than 5 tons, a total of approximately 35 million installed integrated circuit block, and this also marks the giant machine was the third generation of the ranks of the computer.
July, Bill? Gates (B.. Gates) coupled with the success of the BASIC language for the Altair after the withdrawal from Harvard University, and friend Paul. . Alan (Paul Allen) together founded Microsoft, and set goals for the company: "Every family has for each table to a micro-computer running the Microsoft program!." .
1976: April 1, Steve. vozniak (Stephen Wozinak) and Steve. Steve Jobs (Stephen Jobs), co-founded Apple, and launched his first computer: Apple-Ⅰ.
In June, two University of Illinois mathematician Wolfgang? Haken (W.. Haken) and Kenneth? Appel (K.. Apple) computer successfully demonstrated the world's mathematical community long plagued 100 years of the "four color theorem." .
(Note: the four color theorem in 1852, it was suggested that any map can be composed of four colors to distinguish between the two adjacent countries and regions).
September, Shi Zhenrong founded Acer. .
In October, the company launched yadali world's first 3D video game of the night rider "(Night Driver), the game only black and white, using first-person perspective.
1977: June, Larry. . Ellison (Larry Ellison) and his friend Bob Miner and Edward Oates founded with Oracle (Oracle Corporation). .
1979: June?, Bob Metcalfe left PARC and Ron Howard Charney, Crane, Greg Shaw and Bill Kraus a computer communications and compatibility, this is the now famous 3Com Corporation.
[PC Age 1: 1980?? 1985]. .
1980: the beginning of the year, when fashion unknown Novell NetWare network operating system was launched.
September 30, DEC, Intel and Xerox jointly issued the "Ethernet" specification, which is now famous Blue Book Ethernet. .
1981: 7 months, Shen Wang Fu founded the innovative technology companies.
August 12, after a year of hard development, the later is known as the IBM PC, the internal father Don? Aisiteqi (D.. Estridge) led the development team completed the development of IBM personal computers, IBM announced the birth of the IBM PC, thus opening a page in history to change the world. .
12 August, Microsoft released for MS-DOS version 1. .0.
1982: a 15 year old boy through the computer network into a "North American Air Defense Command System", this is the first discovery of network events from external attack. This young man was later sentenced to imprisonment in the world's top hackers, by the U.S. federal court ruled that life can not touch Kevin computer products. . Mitnick. He's another "story" is the time in 1994 to the San Diego Supercomputer Center attack, will be put at risk the entire Internet. .
In February, Connie (R.. Canion), Steve Mack (G. .Stimac) and Bareiss (H. .Barnes) founded the company Compaq (Compaq).
In February, Intel released the 80286 processor. Clock frequency up to 20MHz, and increased protection mode, visit 16M memory. Support more than 1GB of virtual memory. The implementation of 2.7 million instructions per second, integrated 134,000 transistors. .
September 29, 3 com company launched the world's first network-EtherLink network interface card, which is the world's first applied to the interface of the ISA IBM-PC network adapters.
November, Compaq introduced a portable PC, Portable, which is also the first non-IBM compatible PC manufacturing. .
1983: January, Apple introduced the development cost up to $ 50 million by Lisa (Lisa) computer, this is also the world's first commercialization of graphical user interface of the personal computer, while the computer is also the first time with the mouse.
May 8, IBM introduced the IBM PC's improved model IBM PC / XT, and its built-in hard drive. .
1984: Michael DELL Dell founded the estate companies.
Lenovo was founded. .
Adlib Audio from the UK company launched the first sound card: spot odd sound card, so that the PC has a true vocal ability.
January 24th, Apple introduced the Macintosh computer, a landmark not only for the first time using a graphical interface operating system, and for the first time to make personal computers with multimedia capabilities. .
14 August, IBM introduced the use of IBM intel 80286 processor PC/AT computers.
At the end, Compaq began developing IDE interfaces. .
1985: Philips and Sony to launch the CD-ROM drive.
ATI (Array Technology Industry) was established. .
In July, intel Corporation has launched the computer has a pivotal role in the history of 80386 processor, which is intel's first 32-bit processors.
In November, after experiencing repeated delays, Microsoft finally launched its Windows operating system. .
[PC era 2: 1986?? 1994].
1986: September, ahead of Compaq Computer Corp., IBM introduced the first 386 Desktop PC Deskpro PC, which at the time caused quite a stir. .
In the same month, Amstrad Announced release cheap and powerful, object-oriented design of the family PC 1512 Amstrad computers. The machine has CGA graphics adapter, 8086 processor 512KB memory, 20 megabytes of hard disk drive, and use the mouse and the graphical user interface.
1987: April 2, IBM introduced PS / 2 systems. Initially based on 8086 processor and the old XT bus. Later, the transition to 80386, starting with 3. .5-Inch 1. .44 MB floppy disk drive. Introduced a micro-channel technology, this series of models in the market a great success, cumulative shipments reach 200 million units. .
In November, Microsoft launched Windows 2. .0 release. Compared to the previous version of the Microsoft dynamic data exchange and overlay window and other advanced technologies.
1988: November 2, from 23-year-old graduate student Robert? Morris (R.. T.. Morris) the preparation of the "worm" virus, large-scale attack on the Internet, and this cavity チ brag lying delicate Huai Yi " mirror that snapped yo playing flapping ug "Luan ゴ タ Board basis? BR>. .
1989: April 10, Intel Corporation computer festival in Las Vegas for the first time published on integrated million transistors 486 processors.
April, ASUS (ASUS) company established in Taiwan. .
In November, SoundBlast Card sound official release.
1990: Apple co-developed with Motorola and IBM, the structure of the microprocessor based on RISC PowerPC, as is to be with Intel's X86 family of processors to compete. .
24 March, who died of cancer in the United States, with the establishment of the State of Massachusetts General Hospital.
May 5, New York, the trial court and sentenced to 88 years "worm" virus maker Morris, 3 years probation, a fine of 10,000 U.S. dollars and 400 hours community service. .
22 may, Microsoft announced the launch of Windows 3. .0 operating system, and at the end of the record sales of 1 million sets of records. 3. at the time of the Windows operating system provides a .0 multimedia, network, and so many of the most advanced technical support, and thus is a software technology for a revolution.
1991: February 1, Jason? Ken Wilber (Jay Wilbur), John? Carmack (John Carmack), John? Romero (John Romero), Adrian? Carmack (Adrian Carmack) and Tom? Howe Fall (Tom Hall) co-founded id Soft Corporation.John card Mike is the company's chief technology leader, responsible for the design of the game engine; John Michael is Chief? card level designers and game design; Yardley on estate card Mike was the Chief art and design; Tom? Jorge is the company's main game designers.
October 5, college students from Finland Linus. . Torvalds developed a UNIX-based operating system-Linux, and the public all the source code on the Internet, triggering sweeping across the world of open source movement, Linux itself, many programmers in the world through improved also after gradually grown into a mature operating system, and gradually became popular throughout the world. .
Apple, Motorola and IBM jointly signed an agreement to jointly develop PowerPC chip and PC based on the processor system, and thus began the history of different PC among the third round of the contest.
1992: Internet Association was formed, called (ISOC). .
In April, Microsoft launched Windows 3.1, in this version of Windows with the object embedding and linking, and further improve network and multimedia, and other technical support.
August 18, Wang computer company official to the United States federal court for bankruptcy protection. .
In September, Wei sheng (VIA) was established in Taiwan.
1993: U.S. President Bill Clinton in the California report, formally proposed formation of a national information infrastructure (NII) vision, which is later information highway program. .
1 month, nVidia Corporation in the United States of America was established in Santa Clara.
March 2, the root of China's first dedicated Internet access, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of High Energy Physics rental company's international satellite access ATT Stanford Linear Accelerator Center's 64K line officially opened. .
22 March, the company officially released Intel Pentium processor (pentium). The initial release of Pentium integrates 300 million transistors, working in 60-66MHz per second executable instructions 1 billion.
Microsoft released the Windows NT operating system, this is the first one does not rely on DOS to Windows operating system. .
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September 21, Wang announced that out of bankruptcy laws. .
December 10, id Soft company FPS game "DOOM" officially available for download. The game was more a computer is the most outstanding works, because it is the first time let players experience a seamless three-dimensional space, 3D accelerator card yet, DOOM has achieved a tremendous leap forward in technology.
1994: March, Linux 1. .0 Release, the amount of code 170 000 lines, was free of charge in accordance with the agreement completely free release, and then formally adopted by the GPL agreement. Thus, Linux's code into the virtuous circle of development, more and more people try on their own PC, Linux operating system. .
In March, from SGI company Scott Sellers, from Mediavision's Gary Tarolli and Ross Smith three engineers rely on million venture investment company co-founded the 3Dfx a prelude of the 3Dfx legend.
September, Sony / Philips released a high-density CD discs (HIGH-DENSITY CD). This high-density CD disc that is now known as DVD-9 (DS-SL) and DVD-18 (DS-SL) disc format ancestor. .
7 November, the United States Virgilia Lim Berg College mathematics professor Leslie (.Nicely T.) found the "Pentium" (Pentium) processor in a division operation when an error occurs, the message instantly spread throughout the Internet, all over the world. Whereas on 12 December, IBM is announcing the end uses the Pentium processor. December 20, Intel CEO Grove press briefing to the user to make a formal apology and declared to be unconditionally for all users who request free replacement CPU. Intel to use up the cost of billions of dollars to restore his reputation. .
[PC era 1: 1994?? 1997].
1995: March, Jerry Yang and the Chinese American youth with the students at Stanford University, David. . Philo (David.. Filo) co-founder of Yahoo Inc.. .
5 June, IBM to 35 billion has been invested in the acquisition, forcefully Lotus (Lotus) software company. Lotus was a remarkable software giants, it represents the product as is famous for its Office software Lotus-1-2-3.
August 16, to Intel, HP, IBM and other giants, led by 58 companies announced the end of 1995 to achieve the unity of UNIX platforms. .
On 24 August, Microsoft officially introduced to the world of Windows95 operating system. This time Microsoft has adopted a global approach to both publish and promote cost $ 500 million as, set the software promotion, and the history of publishing, Windows95 ushered in a brand new wintel Alliance.
September 15th, European, U.S. and Japan reached an agreement of 10 manufacturing companies, DVD disc will include video and audio, read-only and can write such a comprehensive solution. Data recorded by Toshiba - Warner camp double recording technique, the data read by Sony - Philips single method, from DVD format battle between the two sides ended in a compromise and formal. .
1 November, the company officially announced the launch of intel Pentium Pro processor, the maximum speed reached 200MHz, internal integration is 550 million transistors per second executable 4. .4 billion times. This is what we then called a "new generation" of high-energy Pentium processor.
November 6, 3Dfx released their first 3D acceleration chip: Voodoo, which will be the first real human into a computer 3D halls of the world, so that was one paragraph in the description of the history of the time, were all of wrote: "November 6, 1995, the greatest in human history Voodoo graphics cards turned out to ... ...." .
13 November, Apple, IBM, Matorola three companies to publish the Poweer PC platform specifications ", announced the Apple Power Macintosh platforms and Windows and other platforms enabling comprehensive compatibility.
December 4, sun and Netscape, the company released a joint version of the Java language, mature-JavaScript. .
1996: February, Sun officially released the Java language, Bill Gates thinks:.. "is the most prominent in the history of the Java programming language.
May 20, to IBM, Apple, Oracle, Netscape, SUN company headed by the First World NC General Assembly held in San Francisco. NC (Network Computer) or network computer, this concept is the president of the United States Oracle ilio (Ellion) made in early 95. .
31 July, the id Software company officially released the new generation FPS game QUAKE, laid himself in the position of the World game sector.
In October, U.S. President Bill Clinton announced 100 million U.S. dollars to use federal funds to start a new generation of internet-year plan. .
October 5, 71-year-old giant machine Godfather Simon? Cray (S.. Cray), died in a car accident. Until today, the giant machine still in Mekele creation mode constant development.
October 28, intel and Microsoft released its own NC (NetComputer) standard, which is simplified pc, still using the operating system and the local hardware. .
1997: January 9, Intel launched the Pentium with MMX technology. MMX is English MultiMedia eXtension (multimedia extensions), and it is mainly include: single instruction multiple data technology borrowed from the register, an increase of 57 MMX instruction, and the introduction of a new data type. This is also the company Intel x 86 microprocessor architecture of a major expansion, which directly contributed to the development of computer multimedia applications.
6 April, AMD corporate looting in the Intel Pentium Ⅱ release issued before his k6 processor, and relying on their own performance comparable with Pentium Ⅱ gained a great success. .
May 7, Intel released a P e t I n u m Ⅱ processor. Industry commentators agreed that this chip is not a simple upgrade, but Intel since the introduction of the "Pentium" the most important new products. Ⅱ "Pentium towards 0. .25 micron technology, built-in multimedia (MMX), and adopted the dual independent bus structure.
May 11, developed by the IBM supercomputer "Deep Blue" defeated the first chess grandmaster Kasparov. .
11 August, was one of the world's top ten PC brand of AST Corporation announced that he had become a wholly-owned subsidiary of Samsung Electronics Company, thereby also announced the demise of the AST.
[PC Age 3: 1998?? 1999]. .
1998: January 26th, the company announced the acquisition of Compaq, DEC 96 billion purchase price. DEC company have been in the minicomputer era has the absolute domination of the market, after the acquisition of Compaq, it will make your own making, second only to IBM's second largest computer company.
April, Intel introduced the 440BX chipset, I think on this chipset do not have too much explanation, whether it compatibility almost perfect, or has no one can match his memory efficiency in the implementation are to Many of the older generation DIYer obsession, but this chipset is in today's rapid upgrading of the existing market as long as three years, is creating a myth of immortality. .
In may, the u.s. Department of Justice, as well as 20 counties in Texas, and so on Microsoft antitrust litigation instituted formally accused Microsoft of its operating system monopoly position in the market, by bundling, etc. means the unfair exclusion of competitors, such as Netscape.
May 5, intel invest 50 million U.S. dollars announced the establishment of the China Research Center. .
1 June, the company introduced the AMD K6-2 processor, and the population rose figure juan chant source Υ w; Mr. Kariya Yuga agency ntel company.
June 25, are in troubled U.S. Department of Justice's antitrust case Microsoft released its latest computer operating system Windows 98, and despite strong opposition from the Ministry of Justice in the system also bundled with IE. .
August 15, has gradually been forgotten world of Apple computer introduced the iMac computer suddenly, this one has a fantastic style computer not only immediately world of sensation, is will Apple from the loss of the abyss..
August 24, intel launched with two cache Celeron A processor, which is in the future by many DIYer Lift altar Celeron 300A. .
1 November, the US Iridium was founded, the company adopted by 66 satellites in the Iridium system, has realized for the first time from any location on earth connection of the service.
The same day, the United States dozens of television stations in 23 major cities in the official digital broadcast television programs, which also marked the arrival of digital TV era. .
5 November, was established in Beijing Weiruanzhongguoyanjiuyuan.
November 24, the largest U.S. internet service provider AOL announced it would buy 4.2 billion shares of Netscape (Netscape) companies. .
1999: February 26, Intel Corporation has launched a P e t I n u m P Ⅲ processor, I e n t u m P Ⅲ adopted and e n t I u m Ⅱ the same Slot 1 architecture, and increases with 70 new instruction SSE instruction set for enhanced 3D and multimedia processing. The original clock frequency is above the 450MHz bus speed in the above, using 0 100MHz. 25 μ m technology integrated with manufacturing, 512KB or more L2 cache.
April 26, students from Taiwan Chen Ying-hao prepared CIH virus outbreaks worldwide, about 100 million computer hardware and software in varying degrees of damage, direct economic losses of billions of dollars. .
The id of the Soft launched a k Q u e Ⅲ "first test version, after that time, the Q u a k e Ⅲ" gradually established a FPS game competitive standards, and has become the computer hardware is one of the testing standards.
June 23, AMD has introduced the use of a new architecture, called the Athlon processor, and CPU frequency for the first time exceeded the Intel Corporation, from beginning the end of the century the exciting frequency processor speed battle. .
September 1, Nvidia GeForce256 display company introduced chips, and presented the new concept of GPU.
September 21, China Taiwan Province, earthquake, causing chip prices soaring. .
October 25, code-named Coppermine (copper) processor Pentium Ⅲ. Using μ m 0. .18, internal integrated L2 Cache at full speed, 256KB built-in 2800 million transistors.
5 November, the Federal Court ruled that Microsoft holds monopoly power the United States, and make use of their monopoly weakened competitors. .
[PC era 4: 2000?? 2002].
2000: January 1, the whole world is waiting, Oh, the millennium bug does not break out. .
17 February, the official release of Microsoft Windows2000.
March 4, SONY PlayStation2 console company official in Japan. .
16 March, AMD company officially launched the frequency reaches 1GHz "Athlon" processor, which opened GHz processor wars.
March 18, Intel has introduced its 1GHz Pentium3 processor. .
On the same day, a $ 50 billion of Iridium company declared bankruptcy, the company terminated its Iridium satellite phone service. The Pentagon finally won the right to use the Iridium, but uses an unknown so far.
April 27, AMD has released "Duron" (Duron) processor, Intel began to attack the low-end market. .
The name of "I LOVE YOU" (love) of virus across the globe, with only three days to the world for nearly 45 million computers infected with economic losses of up to 26 billion.
September 14th, Microsoft officially launched the windows for the home user version of thousands of billions in Windows Me, while this is Microsoft's last operating system based on DOS. .
November 12, Microsoft Announces Slim PC Tablet PC.
November 20, Intel officially launched the Pentium4 processor. The new Netburst processor architecture, bus frequency reached 400MHz, and another increase of 144 new instructions for improved video, audio, multimedia and 3D graphics processing power. .
14 December, the 3dfx announced all assets sold to rival Nvidia, thus ending its legendary history.
2001: February 1, Sega announced its withdrawal from the game hardware market. .
26 March, Apple released Mac OS X operating system, this is the Apple operating system since its inception in 1984, the first major revision of version. (This Chronicle is in this version of the operating system to complete the codification).
June 19, Intel introduced its "Tualatin" (Tualatin) P3 and Celeron processor core, this is the first time using Intel 0. .13 Micron process. .
September 4, HP announced that it will use 25 billion, with a swap of Compaq, the entire acquisition will be completed in the first half of 2002.
September 11, terrorist attacks on the United States, the global economy has been affected, and spread to the already sluggish IT industry, a few days the Nasdaq index fall 1,500 points mark. .
8 October, AMD Athlon XP series announced the launch of the new processor, the processor uses a new core, professional 3D Now! instruction set and the OPGA (organic pin array) packaging and marking of the "relative performance" (the nominal value of PR) specification, which is extremely good price/performance makes Intel pressure doubled.
October 25, Microsoft released Windows XP operating system, Bill. . Gates announced: "DOS era ends." Windows XP's release, also contributed to living in the global PC hardware market downturn. .
November 15, Microsoft introduced the XBOX game, priced at $ 299.
2002: February 5, Nvidia released GeForce 4 series graphics chip, the series is divided into two series of Ti and Mx, which GeForce4 Ti 4200 and GeForce 4 MX 440 is the market two products in a very strong life model. .
26 February, the company launched xijie world's first hard drive Serial ATA interface.
May 13, turning the long-established manufacturer of graphics chips officially released Matrox Parhelia-512 (Chinese name: Magic Day) graphics chip, which is the world's first 512bit GPU. .
17 July, ATI Radeon 9700 graphics card was released, the graphics used to display the R300 core, and the first undisputed will Nvidia off the 3D properties of the Overlord's throne.
November 18, Nvidia released the GeForce FX, code-named NV30 graphics, and first used in the products of 0. .13 Micron manufacturing process, due to adopt a number of advanced technology, so the card is also known as an epoch-making product. .
[PC age five: 2003].
2003: January 7, Intel released a new mobile Treatment Standards "Centrino." .
10 February, AMD has released the Athlon XP Barton core processor, although after quite a long period of time without access to the media, but by virtue of ultra high performance-price ratio and superior overclocking ability, and ultimately create a Barton lets all DIYer unlimited Miss Barton times.
February 12, FutureMark officially released 3Dmark 03, but this has triggered a crisis of confidence in testing software. .
April 22, AMD has released for the server market in 64-bit Opteron processor.
September 23, bounced up more than a year in a row, after years, AMD from Intel developed the first instruction set architecture, officially launched the desktop-oriented users of 64-bit processors, Athlon 64 and Athlon 64 FX. .
