【正文】 40 MIPS. [] [] [] [180] October ? HewlettPackard announces the PA7100LC processor. [182] November 16 ? Digital Equipment demonstrates systems with 125MHz 21064 Alpha processors running a variety of Windows NT applications. [149] November ? Digital Equipment unveils the 150MHz DECchip 21064 microprocessor, implementing the Alpha AXP 64bit architecture. Development name was EV4. [7] [] [] [] [] [] [187] ? Digital Equipment introduces the DEC 3000 Model 500 AXP, featuring 150MHz Alpha 21064 processor, 512 KB cache, 32 MB RAM, 1 GB hard drive, six Turbochannel expansion slots, CDROM drive, and 19inch color monitor. Price is US$. Performance is Specmark. [] [] ? Sun Microsystems introduces the SPARCclassic, featuring a 50MHz microSPARC processor, 16 MB RAM, 207 MB hard disk, two SBus expansion slots, Solaris , and 15inch color monitor. Price is about US$4500. Performance specs are MIPS, SpecInt92, Specfp92. [] [] [148] ? Sun Microsystems introduces the SparcStation LX, featuring 50MHz microSparc processor, 16 MB RAM, 424 MB hard disk, Solaris , GXplus video accelerator, CDquality audio, builtin ISDN, and 16inch color monitor. Price is US$7995. Performance specs are MIPS, SpecInt92, Specfp92. [] [] ? Sun Microsystems announces SPARCcenter 20xx multiprocessor server. Up to 20 SuperSPARC processors can be used. Price with two processors is US$95,000. [] [148] ? MIPS Technologies (division of Silicon Graphics) announces the R4400 microprocessor, previously called the R4000A. It is an R4000 processor with double onchip cache, implemented in CMOS. Clock rates of up to 150MHz (75MHz internal) will be available. The chip incorporates million transistors. [] [180] ? HewlettPackard announces the HP 9000 Model 735 desktop workstation. It features a 99MHz PARISC 7100 processor, 32 MB RAM, 525 MB SCSI hard drive, and 19inch color monitor. Rated speeds are 147 Specmarks and MFLOPS. Price is US$37,395. [] [] ? HewlettPackard announces the HP 9000 Model 755 deskside workstation. It features a 99MHz PARISC 7100 processor, 64 MB RAM, 2 GB hard drive, and 19inch color monitor. Rated speeds are 147 Specmarks and MFLOPS. Price is US$58,995. [] [] ? HewlettPackard announces the HP 9000 Model 715/33 workstation. It features 33MHz PARISC processor, grayscale monitor, and one expansion slot. Price is US$4,995. [] [] ? HewlettPackard announces the HP 9000 Model 715/50 workstation. It features 50MHz PARISC processor, grayscale monitor, 512 MB hard drive, and one expansion slot. Price is US$11,895. [] ? HewlettPackard announces the HP 9000 Model 725/50 workstation. It features 50MHz PARISC processor, 4slots, grayscale monitor, 512 MB hard drive, 16 MB RAM, for US$17,895. [] [] December ? Novell buys UNIX Systems Laboratories from ATamp。T announce the intention to set a standard for UNIX. [] April ? Motorola unveils the 88000 processor. [29] May ? A consortium of seven panies, including IBM, announce the Open Software Foundation to develop UNIX standard. [] (month unknown) ? Sun Microsystems ships its 100,000th workstation puter. [] ? NeXT begins negotiations with Businessland for a possible deal to sell NeXT puters outside of the education market. [] September ? SPEC is formed, with the aim of producing a Unix system benchmark based on a standard set of reallife applications programs. [25] (month unknown) ? An engineering task force at Digital Equipment begins project Alpha, to develop a new processor architecture to succeed the VAX. [] [] (begins in mid1989 []) October ? Steve Jobs begins persuading Lotus Development to develop the Improv spreadsheet program for the NeXT puter. [] ? Steve Jobs of NeXT Inc. unveils the first NeXT puter, at the Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco. For US$6500, it features: 25MHz Motorola 68030 processor and 68882 math coprocessor, 8 MB RAM, 17inch monochrome monitor, 256 MB read/write magooptical drive, and objectoriented NeXTSTEP operating system. It is dubbed the Cube because its system box measures 1 foot on all sides. [21] [] [] [] [] [64] [] [,162,166] [214] (August [2]) (month unknown) ? Quote by Bill Gates, of Microsoft, on Steve Jobs’ introduction of the NeXT puter: He put a microprocessor in a box. So what?. [] ? Quote by Bill Gates, of Microsoft, when asked if he would develop software for the NeXT puter: Develop for it? I’ll piss on it.. [] December 31 ? Shipments of Unixbased systems in Italy for the year: 30,000, worth US$548 million. [] 1989 January ? Digital Equipment introduces its first RISCbased workstation, the DECstation 3100, using the R20xx MIPS Technologies processor. [24] [29] [] February ? Quote from Sun Microsystem’s Scott McNealy when asked what he thought of the NeXT Cube: ... it’s the wrong operating system, the wrong processor, and the wrong price.. [] March ? NeXT announces a deal with Businessland to sell NeXT puters outside of the education market. [,208] May ? HewlettPackard buys workstation maker Apollo Computer for US$476 million. [27] ? Solbourne Computers Incorporated is the first to announce a line of SPARCbased Sunpatible puters. [] (1988 []) June ? Canon agrees to buy % of NeXT for US$100 million. [] (month unknown) ? Digital Equipment introduces the DECstation 2100 puter. It features R20xx processor, 8 MB RAM, 15 inch monochrome 1024x864 monitor, Ether, mouse, keyboard, Ultrix Workstation Software operating system, SoftPC DOS emulator. Price is US$7950. [] [] ? Sun Microsystems announces the MIPS 20MHz SPARCstation 1 for a base price of US$9000. [4] [] [145] ? SPARC International is formed. [] ? Data General unveils its Aviion workstation line, based on the Motorola 88000. [29] July ? In Tokyo, Canon introdu