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After 1987, IBM PC compatibles dominated both the home and business markets of commodity computers, with other notable alternative architectures being used in niche markets, like the Macintosh computers offered by Apple Inc. and used mainly for desktop publishing at the time, the aging 8-bit Commodore 64 which was selling for $ 150 by this time and became the world's best-selling computer, the 16-bit Commodore Amiga line used for television and video production and the 16-bit Atari ST used by the music industry.
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After a decade as president of the Australian Council of Trade Unions, he entered parliament as a Labor MP at the 1980 federal election and became Prime Minister within three years, leading Labor to victory at four consecutive federal elections: 1983, 1984, 1987 and 1990.
After years of extensive lobbying for federal dollars, a 1987 public works bill appropriating funding for the Big Dig was passed by U. S. Congress, but it was subsequently vetoed by President Ronald Reagan as being too expensive.
After a ballot of members and the passing of a motion at the 1987 Portsmouth conference, the party merged with the Liberal Party in 1988 to form the Liberal Democrats, although a minority left to form a continuing SDP led by David Owen.
After UNO's dissolution early in 1987, the Nicaraguan Resistance ( RN ) was organized along similar lines in May.
* 1987 – After the 1986 People Power Revolution, the Philippines enacts a new constitution.
After repeated victories in 1983, 1987, 1990 and 1994 he was finally defeated by a landslide that was the biggest on record, for the left in the 1998 federal elections, and was succeeded as Chancellor by Gerhard Schröder of the SPD.
After the May 1987 Gary Hart – Donna Rice scandal, a questionnaire by The New York Times requested things such as psychiatric records and access to FBI files from all 14 presidential candidates.
After the discovery of Lindow Man, there were no further archaeological excavations at Lindow Moss until 1987.
After a year of managing a club called " The Gift " in New Cross, Morris began releasing material as Irresistible Force in 1987, initially in collaboration with singer-songwriter Des de Moor.
After trial, committed to Spandau Prison where he died in 1987.
After the 1986 Reykjavik summit between U. S. President Ronald Reagan and the new Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev, the United States and the Soviet Union concluded two important nuclear arms reduction treaties: the INF Treaty ( 1987 ) and START I ( 1991 ).
After hitting in either the second or eighth spot in the batting order for most of his time in St. Louis, Herzog made Smith the number-two hitter full-time during the 1987 season.
After negotiation of an international treaty ( the Montreal Protocol ), CFC production was sharply limited beginning in 1987 and phased out completely by 1996.
After a seven-year hiatus brought on by poor health, Heinlein produced five new novels in the period from 1980 ( The Number of the Beast ) to 1987 ( To Sail Beyond the Sunset ).
After spending 1987 on tour supporting Raising Hell, Run – D. M. C.
After that, a larger project was executed in 1987 to reintroduce a permanent population of red wolves back to the wild in the Alligator River National Wildlife Refuge ( ARNWR ) on the eastern coast of North Carolina.
After a phase of steadiness during the early 1980s, the population grew further from 8. 3 to 8. 8 million during 1987 to 1997, followed by another phase of stagnation ( followed by another growth phase from 8. 8 to 9. 3 million over 2004 to 2010 ).
" After an alleged attempt to overthrow President Momoh in March 1987, more than 60 senior government officials were arrested, including Vice-President Francis Minah, who was removed from office, convicted for plotting the coup, and executed by hanging in 1989 along with 5 others.
After releasing several unsuccessful games for the Famicom, Square relocated to Ueno, Tokyo in 1987 and developed a role-playing video game titled Final Fantasy, inspired by Enix's success with the genre, Dragon Quest ( later released in North America as Dragon Warrior ).
After revising the constitution in 1987 and after years of resisting the United States-supported Contras the FSLN lost the election in 1990 to Violeta Barrios de Chamorro, but they retained a plurality of seats in the legislature.
After a childhood of beauty pageants, Thiessen was crowned Miss Junior America in 1987 and a year later won Teen magazine's " Great Model Search " in 1988, by gracing the cover of that issue.
After he left The Band, Robbie Robertson became a music producer and wrote film soundtracks ( including acting as music supervisor for several of Scorsese's films ) before a highly praised comeback with a Daniel Lanois produced, eponymous solo album in 1987.
In the 1987 year " The Day After " broadcast on the Soviet Union Central television.
After Amstrad bought the computer business of Sinclair Research, Sir Clive retained the rights to the Pandora project, and it evolved into the Cambridge Computer Z88, launched in 1987.
Appearing on television discussion programme After Dark ( TV series ) | After Dark in 1987
After and IBM
IBM kept some secrets, as Coppersmith explains: " After discussions with NSA, it was decided that disclosure of the design considerations would reveal the technique of differential cryptanalysis, a powerful technique that could be used against many ciphers.
After an interim 1. 3 version to fix up many remaining problems with the 1. x series, IBM released OS / 2 version 2. 0 in 1992.
After World War II, Watson began work to further the extent of IBM's influence abroad and in 1949, the year he stepped down, created the IBM World Trade Corporation in order to oversee IBM's foreign business.
After Rubinstein obtained a report that discussed the abilities of contemporary standalone word processors from IBM, Xerox, and Wang Laboratories, Barnaby enhanced WordMaster with similar features and support for the CP / M operating system.
After the 1981 release by IBM of its IBM PC, the term personal computer became generally used for microcomputers compatible with the IBM PC architecture ( PC compatible ).
After their graduation from Carnegie Mellon, Hsu, Thomas Anantharaman, and Murray Campbell from the Deep Thought team were hired by IBM Research to continue their quest to build a chess machine that could defeat the world champion.
After Deep Thought's 1989 match against Kasparov, IBM held a contest to rename the chess machine and it became " Deep Blue ", a play on IBM's nickname, " Big Blue ".
After a scaled down version of Deep Blue, Deep Blue Jr., played Grandmaster Joel Benjamin, Hsu and Campbell decided that Benjamin was the expert they were looking for to develop Deep Blue's opening book, and Benjamin was signed by IBM Research to assist with the preparations for Deep Blue's matches against Garry Kasparov.
After IBM's competitor Control Data Corporation ( CDC ) released their computer, IBM announced they planned to sell a more advanced computer soon — its System / 360 Model 91.
After achieving success with the BBC Micro computer, Acorn Computers Ltd considered how to move on from the relatively simple MOS Technology 6502 processor to address business markets like the one that would soon be dominated by the IBM PC, launched in 1981.
After this, support for other platforms dwindled until compiler development ceased for all platforms except IBM mainframes.
After graduating from Cochise, he moved to Kentucky where he joined IBM as a technician and was later promoted to engineer.
After a year of negotiations and design studies, IBM agreed to make a one-of-a-kind version of its S / 360-65 mainframe computer with dynamic address translation ( DAT ) features that would support virtual memory and accommodate UM's desire to support time-sharing.
After discussions with the small company Microsoft, IBM decided to use 86-DOS ( QDOS ), a CP / M-like operating system that a Seattle area computer company had made for its own hardware.
After learning about the deal, Digital Research founder Gary Kildall threatened to sue IBM for infringing DRI's intellectual property, and IBM agreed to offer CP / M-86 as an alternative operating system on the PC to settle the claim.
After the PS / 2 computer hit the market in 1987, IBM released the PC LAN Support Program, which included a driver for NetBIOS.
After IBM and Microsoft ceased to cooperate in the 1990s, the two companies have maintained the list of assigned code page numbers independently from each other, resulting in some conflicting assignments.
After the announcement of the IBM PC in 1981, the company started a porting effort to PCDOS.
After making small modifications to the language Wirth supervised a high quality implementation for the IBM / 360 at Stanford University that was widely distributed.
After Novell, IBM, and the United States Trustee objected to the deal, SCO withdrew the proposed sale on November 20, without prejudice.
After the SCO vs IBM legal battle began, SCO Forum presentations have focused on presenting SCO's side.
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