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The MITS Altair, the first commercially successful microprocessor kit, was featured on the cover of Popular Electronics magazine in January 1975. It was the world's first mass-produced personal computer kit, as well as the first computer to use an Intel 8080 processor. It was a commercial success with 10,000 Altairs being shipped.
The history of the personal computer as a mass-market consumer electronic device began with the microcomputer revolution of the 1970s. A personal computer is one intended for interactive individual use, as opposed to a mainframe computer where the end user's requests are filtered through operating staff, or a time-sharing system in which one large processor is shared by many individuals.
Windows 1.0 is the first major release of Microsoft Windows, a family of graphical operating systems for personal computers developed by Microsoft.It was first released to manufacturing in the United States on November 20, 1985, while the European version was released as Windows 1.02 in May 1986.
2017–10: Windows 10 Fall Creators Update Windows 10 Mobile Fall Creators Update Windows Server 2016 Fall Creators Update : iOS 11.1 watchOS 4.1 tvOS11.1: OpenBSD 6.2 DragonFly BSD 5.0: Ubuntu 17.10: 2017–11: Linux 4.14 Fedora Linux 27: BareMetal 1.0.0 2017–12: iOS 11.2 watchOS 4.2 tvOS11.2: Android 8.1: ReactOS 0.4.7 2018–01: Linux 4.15 ...
ENIAC (/ ˈ ɛ n i æ k /; Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer) [1] [2] was the first programmable, electronic, general-purpose digital computer, completed in 1945. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Other computers had some of these features, but ENIAC was the first to have them all.
Upon the release of Windows 10 in 2015, the ARM-specific version for large tablets was discontinued; large tablets (such as the Surface Pro 4) were only released with x86 processors and could run the full version of Windows 10. Windows 10 Mobile had the ability to be installed on smaller tablets (up to nine inches); [16] however, very few such ...
The Computer History Museum currently says that the Micral is one of the earliest commercial, non-kit personal computers. [5] The 1971 Kenbak-1, invented before the first microprocessor, is considered to be the world's first "personal computer".
Windows 1.0, the first independent version of Microsoft Windows, released on November 20, 1985, achieved little popularity. The project was briefly codenamed "Interface Manager" before the windowing system was implemented—contrary to popular belief that it was the original name for Windows and Rowland Hanson, the head of marketing at Microsoft, convinced the company that the name Windows ...