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1990 Motorola releases the 68040 capable of 35 MIPS and integrated a far superior FPU. The 68040 was included in some of the Apple Macintosh and Commodore Amiga lineup. March 19, 1990 Macintosh IIfx released. Based on a 40 MHz version of the 68030 it achieved 10 MIPS. It also had a faster SCSI adapter, which could transfer 3.0 Mbit/s. May 22, 1990
But just a few decades ago FaceTime, Netflix, Facebook, email and all the technology we use to make our lives easier and more connected were just ideas in the minds of tech innovation leaders.
Computer Chronicles (also titled as The Computer Chronicles from 1984 to 1989) is an American half-hour television series that was broadcast on PBS public television from 1984 to 2002. [2] It documented and explored the personal computer as it grew from its infancy in the early 80s to its rise in the global market at the turn of the 21st ...
Computer-related introductions in the 1990s (15 C, 4 P) P. Programming languages created in the 1990s (10 C, 3 P) S. 1990s software (12 C, 5 P)
Date Location Event January United Kingdom (UK) Sinclair ZX80 was released for under £100.: 22 May Japan: The game Pac-Man was released. [1]June United States (US) Commodore released the VIC-20, which had 3.5 KB of usable memory and was based on the MOS Technology 6502 processor.
In the early 1990s, a significant innovation was to realize that the coordination of a multi-ALU computer could be moved into the compiler, the software that translates a programmer's instructions into machine-level instructions. This type of computer is called a very long instruction word (VLIW) computer.
By 1996 64 percent of K–12 schools in the United States had Internet access and 63 percent of American 12th graders reported using a computer for school work. [6] The first hybrid vehicles are produced in 1997. High-end cars of the 1990s were installed with automatic doors, windows controlled with electric levers, GPS navigation, and CD drives.
At least on the positive side, the decade gave us some of the best films in Hollywood history, a small portion of which made the cut in Whats the Movie? 1990's Set