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1983:

Operating Systems: Lisa OS
Programming Languages: Ada; Parlog; Turbo Pascal; C++
Computers: Apple IIe; Lisa; IBM XT; IBM PC Jr; ARM (microprocessor);Cray X-MP/4 (941 MFLOPS)

Games: Dragon’s Lair (raster arcade videogame, first video game to use laserdisc video; note that the gambling deviceQuarterhorse used the laserdisc first); Elevator Action (raster arcade videogame); Gyruss (raster arcade video game, used the musical score Toccata andFugue in D minor by Bach); Mappy (raster arcade video game, side scrolling);Mario Bros. (raster arcade video game); Spy Hunter (raster arcade video game,musical score Peter Gunn); Star Wars (vector arcade video game, digitizedsamples from the movie of actor’s voices); Tapper (raster arcade video game) Technology:math coprocessor; PC harddisk

1984:

Operating Systems: GNU project started; MacOS 1
Programming Languages: Standard ML; PostScript
Computers: Apple Macintosh; IBM AT; Apple IIc; MIPS R2000(microprocessor); M-13 (U.S.S.R., 2.4 GFLOPS); Cray XMP-22
Software: Apple MacWrite; Apple MacPaint
Games: 1942 (raster arcade video game); Paperboy (raster arcade videogame, unusual controllers, high resolution display); Punch-Out (raster arcadevideo game, digitized voice, dual monitors)
Technology: WYSIWYG word processing; LaserJet printer; DNS (Domain NameServer); IDE interface

    

1985:

Operating Systems: GEM; AmigaOS; AtariOS; WIndows 1.0; Mac OS 2
Programming Languages: PARADOX
Computers: Cray-2/8 (3.9 GFLOPS); Atari ST; Commodore Amiga; AppleMacintosh XL; Intel 80386 (microprocessor); Sun SPARC (microprocessor)
Software: Apple Macintosh Office; Aldus PageMaker (Macintosh only)
Technology: desktop publishing; EGA video card; CD-ROM; expanded memory(for IBM-PC compatibles; Apple LaserWriter

1986:

Operating Systems: Mach; AIX; GS-OS; HP-UX; Mac OS 3
Programming Languages: CLP(R); Eiffel
Computers: Apple IIGS; Apple Macintosh Plus; Amstrad 1512; ARM2(microprocessor); Cray XMP-48
Software: Apple Macintosh Programmer’s Workshop
Games: The Legend of Zelda
Technology: SCSI

1987:

Operating Systems: IRIX; Minix; OS/2; Windows 2.0; MDOS (Myarc DiskOperating System); Mac OS 4; Mac OS 5
Programming Languages: HyperTalk; Perl
Computers: Apple Macintosh II; Apple macintosh SE; Acorn Archimedes;Connection Machine (first massive parallel computer); IBM PS/2; Commodore Amiga500; Nintendo Entertainment System
Software: Apple Hypercard; Apple MultiFinder; Adobe Illustrator(Macintosh only; later ported to NeXT, Silicon Graphics IRIX, Sun Solaris, andMicrosoft Windows); Design (which eventually became ImagePro and thenPhotoshop; Macintosh only); QuarkXPress (Macintosh only)
Games: Final Fantasy
Technology: massive parallel computing; VGA video card; sound card forIBM-PC compatibles; Apple Desktop Bus (ADB)

1988:

Operating Systems: OS/400; Mac OS 6
Programming Languages: CLOS; Mathematica; Oberon
Computers: Cray Y-MP; Apple IIc Plus
Software: ImagePro (which eventually became Photoshop; Macintosh only);Mathematica (Macintosh only)
Technology: optical chip; EISA bus

1989:

Operating Systems: NeXtStep; RISC OS; SCO UNIX
Programming Languages: Standard Interchange Language
Computers: Intel 80486 (microprocessor); ETA10-G/8 (10.3 GFLOPS)
Software: Microsoft Office; first (pre-Adobe) version of Photoshop(Macintosh only)
Games: Sim; SimCity
Technology: ATA interface, World Wide Web

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1990:

Operating Systems: BeOS; OSF/1
Programming Languages: Haskell
Computers: NEC SX-3/44R (Japan, 23.2 GFLOPS); Cray XMS; Cray Y-MP 8/8-64(first Cray supercomputer to use UNIX); Apple Macintosh Classic; Neo Geo; SuperNintendo Entertainment System
Software: Adobe Photoshop (Macintosh only)
Technology: SVGA video card; VESA driver

1991:

Operating Systems: Linux kernel; Mac OS 7
Programming Languages: Python; Visual BASIC
Computers: Apple PowerBook; PowerPC (microprocessor); PARAM 8000 (India,created by Dr. Vijay Bhatkar, 1GFLOP)
Technology: CD-i

1992:

Operating Systems: Solaris; Windows 3.1; OS/2 2.0; SLS Linux; Tru64 UNIX
Computers: Cray C90 (1 GFLOP)
Games: Mortal Kombat

1993:

Operating Systems: Windows NT 3.1; Stackware Linux; Debian GNU/Linux;Newton
Programming Languages: AppleScript
Computers: Cray EL90; Cray T3D; Apple Newton; Apple Macintosh TV; IntelPentium (microprocessor, 66MHz); Thinking Machines CM-5/1024 (59.7 GFLOPS);Fujitsu Numerical Wind Tunnel (Japan, 124.50 GFLOPS); Intel Paragon XP/S 140(143.40 GFLOPS)
Games: Myst (first puzzle-based computer adventure game; CD-ROM game forMacintosh); Doom
Technology: MP3

1994:

Operating Systems: Red Hat Linux
Programming Languages: Java
Computers: Cray J90; Apple Power Macintosh; Sony PlayStation; FujitsuNumerical Wind Tunnel (Japan, 170.40 GFLOPS)
Technology: DNA computing

1995:

Operating Systems: OpenBSD; OS/390; Windows 95
Programming Languages: Delphi; JavaScript; PHP
Computers: BeBox; Cray T3E; Cray T90; Intel Pentium Pro (microprocessor);Sun UltraSPARC (microprocessor)
Software: Microsoft Bob
Technology: DVD; wikis

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1996:

Operating Systems: MkLinux
Computers: Hitachi SR2201/1024 (Japan, 220.4 GFLOPS); Hitachi/TsukubaCP=PACS/2048 (Japan, 368.2 GFLOPS)
Games: Tomn Raider and Lara Croft, Pokémon; Quake (first person shooterusing new 3D rendering on daughter boards)
Technology: USB

1997:

Operating Systems: Mac OS 8
Programming Languages: Alloy
Computers: AMD K6 (microprocessor); Intel Pentium II (microprocessor);PalmPilot; Intel ASCI Red/9152 (1.338 TFLOPS)
Software: AOL Instant Messenger
Technology: web blogging

    

1998:

Operating Systems: Windows 98
Computers: Apple iMac; Apple iMac G3; Intel Xeon (microprocessor)

1999:

Operating Systems: Mac OS 9
Computers: PowerMac; AMD Athlon (microprocessor); Intel Pentium III(microprocessor); BlackBerry; Apple iBook; TiVo; Intel ASCI Red/9632 (2.3796TFLOPS)

2000s

 

2000:

Operating Systems: Mac OS 9; Windows ME; Windows 2000
Programming Languages: D; C#; RELAX (regular Language description forXML)
Computers: Intel Pentium 4 (microprocessor, over 1 GHz); SonyPlayStation 2; IBM ASCI White (7.226 TFLOPS)
Technology: USB flash drive

2001:

Operating Systems: Mac OS X Cheetah; Windows XP; z/OS
Programming Languages: Kylix
Computers: Nintendo GameCube; Apple iPod; Intel Itanium(microprocessor); Xbox
Games: Halo
Technology: blade server

    

2002:

Operating Systems: Mac OS X 10.1 Puma
Computers: Apple eMac; Apple iMac G4; Apple XServe; NEC Earth Simulator(Japan, 35.86 TFLOPS)

2003:

Operating Systems: Windows Server 2003; Mac OS X 10.2 Jaguar
Computers: PowerPC G5; AMD Athlon 64 (microprocessor); Intel Pentium M(microprocessor)
Games: Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles

    

2004:

Operating Systems: Mac OS X 10.3 Panther
Computers: Apple iPod Mini; Apple iMac G5; Sony PlayStation Portable;IBM Blue Gene/L (70.72 TFLOPS)
Games: Fable
Technology: DualDisc; PCI Express; USB FlashCard

2005:

Operating Systems: Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger
Programming Languages: Job Submission Description Language
Computers: IBM System z9; Apple iPod Nano; Apple Mac Mini; Intel PentiumD (microprocessor); Sun UltraSPARC IV (microprocessor); Xbox 360
Games: Lego Star Wars

2006:

Computers: Apple Intel-based iMac; Intel Core2 (microprocessor); Sony PlayStation 3
Technology: Blu-Ray Disc

2007:

Operating Systems: Apple iOS (for iPhone); Windows Vista
Computers: AMD K10 (microprocessor), Apple TV; Apple iPhone; Apple iPodTouch; Amazon Kindle

2008:

Operating Systems: Google Android; Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
Computers: Android Dev Phone 1; BlackBerry Storm; Intel Atom(microprocessor); MacBook Air; IBM RoadRunner (1.026 PFLOPS); Dhruva (India, 6TFLOPS)

2009:

Operating Systems: Windows 7; Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard
Computers: Motorola Driod; Palm Pre; Cray XT5 Jaguar (1.759 PFLOPS)

2010:

Computers: Apple iPad; IBM z196 (microprocessor); Apple iPhone 4; KoboeReader; HTC Evo 4G

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