In 1984 Hennessy was convinced of the future commercial potential of the design, and left Stanford to form MIPS Computer Systems.

MIPS Computer Systems Inc. was founded in 1984 by a group of researchers from Stanford University that included John L. Hennessy, as a vendor of microprocessor chips.

The MIPS architecture grew out of a graduate course by John L. Hennessy at Stanford University in 1981, resulted in a functioning system in 1983, and could run simple programs by 1984.

The MIPS system was followed by the MIPS-X and in 1984 Hennessy and his colleagues formed MIPS Computer Systems.

In 1984, he used his sabbatical year to found MIPS Computer Systems Inc. to commercialize his research in RISC processors.

The other project took place only a short drive away at Stanford University under their MIPS effort starting in 1981 and running until 1984.

The Amstrad CPC ( short for Colour Personal Computer ) is a series of 8-bit home computers produced by Amstrad between 1984 and 1990.

Prior to Red Hat, Young built a couple of computer rental and leasing businesses, including founding Vernon Computer Rentals in 1984.

* 1984 — Metaphor Computer Systems, founded by David Liddle and Don Massaro, releases Data Interpretation System ( DIS ).

He received the 1972 Turing Award for fundamental contributions to developing programming languages, and was the Schlumberger Centennial Chair of Computer Sciences at The University of Texas at Austin from 1984 until 2000.

This hacker ethic was publicized and perhaps originated in Steven Levy's Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution ( 1984 ).

The term hacker ethic is attributed to journalist Steven Levy as described in his 1984 book titled Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution.

ISBN 0-387-56453-5 ( translated from the original German edition ( 1984 ): Der Computer – Mein Lebenswerk.

On January 24, 1984, Apple Computer Inc. ( now Apple Inc .) introduced the Macintosh personal computer, with the Macintosh 128K model, which came bundled with what was later renamed the Mac OS, but then known simply as the System Software.

* The Computer Museum Report, Volume 8, TX-0 alumni reunion, Spring 1984, Ed Thelen Web site ( accessed June 18, 2006 )

At the Computer History Museum TX-0 alumni reunion in 1984, Gordon Bell said DEC's products developed directly from the TX-2, the successor to the TX-0 which had been developed at what Bell thought was a bargain price at the time, about.

In 1984, under LucasFilm Computer Group, John Lasseter's first computer animated short, The Adventures of André & Wally B., premiered at SIGGRAPH.

The original idea of X emerged at MIT in 1984 as a collaboration between Jim Gettys ( of Project Athena ) and Bob Scheifler ( of the MIT Laboratory for Computer Science ).

* Scott W. Y. Wang and Jeff B. Lindberg " HP-UX: Implementation of UNIX on the HP 9000 Series 500 Computer Systems ", Hewlett-Packard Journal ( volume 35 number 3, March 1984 )

Since 1984 the great majority of this work has been organized and communicated within the boundaries of a specialized scientific event-the Computer Supported Cooperative Work conferences-which are held by the Association for Computing Machinery Special Interest Group in Computer-Human Interaction biannually.

In 1984 Palatino was one of the typefaces originally included by Apple Computer in the Macintosh.

The Psion Organiser I model, launched in 1984 was the " World's First Practical Pocket Computer ".

* The Home Computer Wars: An Insider's Account of Commodore and Jack Tramiel by Michael Tomczyk, Compute, 1984, ISBN 0-942386-75-2

Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs ( SICP ) is a textbook published in 1984 about general computer programming concepts from MIT Press written by Massachusetts Institute of Technology ( MIT ) professors Harold Abelson and Gerald Jay Sussman, with Julie Sussman.

* History's First Billion-Point Video Game Performance ( Jan. 16, 1984 ) Computer Games magazine, July 1, 1984

Clark received the ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics Achievement Award in 1984.

AIX / 370 was IBM's third attempt to offer Unix-like functionality for their mainframe line, specifically the System / 370 ( the prior versions were a TSS / 370 based Unix system developed jointly with AT & T c. 1980, and VM / IX a VM / 370 based system developed jointly with Interactive Systems Corporation c. 1984 ).

In 1984, RCA Broadcast Systems Division moved from Camden, New Jersey, to the site of the RCA antenna engineering facility in Gibbsboro, New Jersey.

Kurzweil Music Systems was founded in the same year, and in 1984, the Kurzweil K250 was unveiled.

He also worked as a consultant and vice president for new product research at Kurzweil Music Systems from 1984 to 1988, helping to develop the Kurzweil K2000.

Other key points in the 1960s and 1970s would be the foundation of CAD systems United Computing, Intergraph, IBM, Intergraph IGDS in 1974 ( which led to Bentley Systems MicroStation in 1984 )

Perot founded Electronic Data Systems ( EDS ) in 1962, sold the company to General Motors in 1984, and founded Perot Systems in 1988.

Leonard Bosack and Sandy Lerner, a married couple who worked as computer operations staff members at Stanford University, later joined by Richard Troiano, founded Cisco Systems in 1984.

Hughes Helicopters was made a subsidiary initially and renamed McDonnell Douglas Helicopter Systems in August 1984.

Established in 1984, its members come from five Technion faculties, and it has a technical staff of Technion scientists in a variety of space-related fields: ( Physics, Aerospace Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Autonomous Systems and Computer Sciences ).

With their encouragement he formed Groton Database Systems ( named after the town, Groton, Massachusetts, where they were located ) on Labor Day 1984 and started work on what would eventually be released as InterBase.

Jarvis was working on advanced satellite designs in the Systems Application Laboratory when he was selected as a payload specialist candidate in July 1984.

Keith A. Bentley, in conjunction with his brother, Barry J. Bentley, founded Bentley Systems in 1984.

The glitch was known and used from an early point on, first by Electronic Speech Systems to produce sampled speech in games such as Impossible Mission ( 1983, Epyx ) and Ghostbusters ( 1984, Activision ).

* Decision Support Systems for Marketing Managers ( 1984 )

In 1984, he moved back to Arizona, settling in Phoenix, where he was hired by billboard company Outdoor Systems.

As of January 1, 1984, the new AT & T Technologies, Inc. assumed the corporate charter of Western Electric, which was then split into several divisions, each focusing on a particular type of customer ( e. g. AT & T Technology Systems, AT & T Network Systems ).

* 1984: Offshore Power Systems was shut down after completing none.