1949 – The first jet-powered airliner, the de
Havilland Comet, made its first flight. Previously jet engines had only been
used to power small fighter aircraft.
1981 – Microsoft Buys Full Rights to 86-DOS
About two
weeks before IBM begins shipping the first IBM PC, Microsoft buys the full
right to the operating system 86-DOS, formerly known as QDOS(Quick and Dirty
Operating System), from Seattle Computer Products for $50,000. Microsoft had
previously paid $25,000 to SCP for a non-exclusive license in December 1980 in
order to begin porting the operating system to the IBM PC, which used the Intel
8088 processor. Microsoft renamed 86-DOS to MS-DOS and licensed it to IBM as
PC-DOS.SCP would later sue Microsoft claiming fraud because Microsoft did not
reveal IBM as a licensee. The case was settled in SCP’s favor for 1 million
dollars, a fraction for the annual revenue Microsoft was receiving from MS-DOS
and PC-DOS.
1993 – Windows NT 3.1 released
Microsoft
released another Operating System to focus the business. NT 3.1 was the first
release in the NT stood for “N-Ten,” the codename of the Intel i860 XR
processor for which NT was initially developed. The NT kernel was different
than the Windows 3.x version. It implemented the Win32 API, or 32 bit
programming. Windows NT also was for the business. It didn’t push multimedia
like it’s home counterpart.
1997 – Computer Could Have Prevented Murder of Fashion Designer
In an article in the Los Angeles Times,
former san Jose Police Chief Joseph McNamara argued that computers could have
by Andrews Cunanan. “If the Miami Beach Police Department had computer
technology as sophisticated as that used in one of the town’s trendy
restaurants,” McNamara wrote, “fashion designer Gianni Versace would probably
still be alive.” He noted, however that few police departments have the
necessary technology. Police had received information on Cunanan earlier in the
week from a pawnbroker, but at the time of Versace’s death, it remained in
paper format waiting to be enter into the computer system.
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