The most notable changes were the second series ' addition of " swivel-arm " articulation in 1983 which allowed the forearm to rotate above the elbow ( initial figures could only bend their elbows ), and the fourth series ' ball joints replacing the former swivel necks, both dramatically increasing a figures poseability.

In 1983, " swivel-arm battle grip " articulation and some extra tweaks were added to the new characters and the existing figures in order to make them more poseable.

In 1983, the American National Standards Institute formed a committee, X3J11, to establish a standard specification of C. After a long and arduous process, the standard was completed in 1989 and ratified as ANSI X3. 159-1989 " Programming Language C ." This version of the language is often referred to as " ANSI C ", or sometimes " C89 " ( to distinguish it from C99 ).

He received accolades for his portrayal of Sydney Carton in a made for television version of A Tale of Two Cities ( 1980 ), co-starred with Dennis Hopper in The Osterman Weekend ( 1983 ), which was based on the Robert Ludlum novel of the same name, and co-starred with Goldie Hawn in Protocol ( 1984 ).

Parton continued to make inroads on the pop charts as well with a re-recorded version of " I Will Always Love You " from the feature film The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas ( 1982 ) scraping the Top 50 that year and her duet with Kenny Rogers, " Islands in the Stream " ( written by the Bee Gees and produced by Barry Gibb ), spent two weeks at number one in 1983.

Version 1 of BTNR188 ( DPNSS ) was issued in 1983 ; the last version of DPNSS to be released 6 in 1995 included compatibility with ISDN features released in V5.

A version of the IBM PC called the 3270 PC, released in October 1983, included 3270 terminal emulation.

* ( 1983 ) Shaker Loops ( version for string orchestra )

The MS-DOS version of Kermit was developed in 1983.

The Micro Uzi is a scaled-down version of the Uzi, first introduced in 1983.

Around 1983, during the development of the first release of Windows, Microsoft had plans to make a Windows version.

At the same time, a bypass shortened the Nordschleife to, and with an additional small pit lane, this version was used for races in 1983, e. g. the 1000km Nürburgring endurance race, while construction work was going on nearby.

occam 1 ( released 1983 ) was a preliminary version of the language which borrowed from David May's work on EPL and Tony Hoare's CSP.

* 1983: Elaine Paige recorded a version for her album Stages.

In 1983, a new version of talk was introduced as a Unix command with BSD v4. 2, and would also accommodate electronic conversations between users on different machines.

It was released in hardcover in 1983, and a trade paperback version came out from Del Rey in 2001.

Up to version 3. 7 of vi, created in October, 1981, UC Berkeley was the development home for vi, but with Bill Joy's departure in early 1982, to join Sun Microsystems, and AT & T's UNIX System V ( January, 1983 ) adopting vi, changes to the vi codebase happened more slowly and in a more dispersed and mutually incompatible ways.

In 1983, OS-9 / 6809 was ported to Motorola 68000 assembly language and extended ( called OS-9 / 68K ); and a still later ( 1989 ) version was rewritten mostly in C for further portability.

* Dorian Ford in the 1983 BBC Shakespeare version.

It shipped with BSD 4. 1c in 1983, the first BSD version that included TCP / IP protocols.

* 1983: Sweeney Astray: A version from the Irish, Field Day

Bonus features on the DVD include a restored version of the 1972 short film " Caravan Holiday " featuring Johnny Young and the Young Talent Team ; full biographies of all 40 Team Members and Johnny Young ; Nicole Kidman's appearance as a guest on the show to promote her 1983 film BMX Bandits ; assorted television commercials featuring members of the team ; footage of some of the Team when they appeared as contestants on the show ; and the full-length clip of sisters Dannii Minogue and Kylie Minogue performing the song " Sisters Are Doing It For Themselves ".

Microsoft added a RAM drive to MS-DOS ( version 2. 0 ) in 1983.

One of Macready's innovations – the use of Stonehenge-like structures on stage to indicate an ancient setting – proved enduring on stage into the twentieth century, and can be seen in the 1983 television version starring Laurence Olivier.

Another notable example is the 1932 film Scarface which was remade in 1983 starring Al Pacino ; whereas the setting of 1932 version is the illegal alcohol trade, the characters in the 1983 version are involved in cocaine smuggling.

Aquino, a former Senator and a leading figure of the political opposition, was assassinated in 1983 at the Manila International Airport ( now the Ninoy Aquino International Airport ) upon returning home from exile.

Nontraditional vegetables and fruit produced US $ 23. 8 million in export revenue in 1990, a figure that was almost double the 1983 figure.

* 1983 – Trinley Thaye Dorje, Tibetan religious figure, the 17th Karmapa Lama

* 1983 – Ryan Bradley, American figure skater

* 1983 – Annette Dytrt, German skater figure

Sales figures as high as 35 to 40 million have been cited in various reference books and by media, as have lower numbers in the 15 – 22 million range, whilst a " more than 30 million copies " figure was quoted by Star, as early as 1983, on back cover page of Swenson's book.

He continued as a central figure on the left of the party and, at the 1981 Conservative Party conference, openly criticised the government's economic policies – namely monetarism, which had seen inflation cut from 27 % in 1979 to 4 % by 1983, but had seen unemployment double from around 1, 500, 000 to a postwar high of more than 3, 000, 000 during that time.

Meyer Lansky ( born Meyer Suchowljansky ; July 4, 1902 – January 15, 1983 ), known as the " Mob's Accountant ," was a Russian-born American organized crime figure who, along with his associate Charles " Lucky " Luciano, was instrumental in the development of the " National Crime Syndicate " in the United States.

* Meyer Lansky ( 1902 – 1983 ), central figure in the Jewish Mafia and highly influential figure in the Italian Mafia

* Ryan Bradley ( born 1983 ), American figure skater

His brother, Michael Foot, was a prominent figure in the Labour Party and was Leader of the Opposition from 1980 to 1983.

He was seen as a figure on the left and an ally of Tony Benn and stood as the left's candidate against Roy Hattersley in the 1983 deputy leadership election.

He was also a prominent figure in three coup d ' etats of later decades, the first two of which brought and removed General Muhammadu Buhari from power in 1983.

From 1948 to 1983, the number of students in higher education in Slovakia per 1, 000 inhabitants increased from 47 % of the Czech figure to 119 %.

In the early 1980s, annual tuition at Harvard-Westlake was around $ 4, 000 ; by 1983 or 1984, this figure surpassed $ 5, 000.

In 1983, Tynan moved on to Plymouth Argyle where he became a cult figure during the 1980s and is frequently named by Argyle fans as one of the club's all time greatest players.

Ivan Matveevich Vinogradov ForMemRS (; 14 September 1891 – 20 March 1983 ) ( not to be confused with Askold Ivanovich Vinogradov of the Bombieri-Vinogradov theorem ) was a Soviet mathematician, who was one of the creators of modern analytic number theory, and also a dominant figure in mathematics in the USSR.

"; the mad, comic figure of Richard IV in the first series of The Black Adder ( 1983 ); and Spiro in the BBC adaptation of My Family and Other Animals ( 1987 ).

Vasili Vasilyevich Kuznetsov (; 5 June 1990 ), Russian Soviet political figure ; acting chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet from 1982 to 1983, for a second time in 1984, and for a third time in 1985.

Kaplan, who was prosecuted as an enemy of the state in Turkey and faced the death penalty, came to Germany in 1983 as a refugee, together with his father, Cemaleddin Kaplan, who was a leading figure in Turkish Islamist circles in Germany.

Diego Abad de Santillán ( May 20, 1897 – October 18, 1983 ), born Sinesio Vaudilio García Fernández, was an author, economist and leading figure in the Spanish and Argentine anarchist movements.

Anton Buttigieg ( ; 19 February 1912 – 5 May 1983 ) was a Maltese political figure and poet.

Eduardo Duhalde, a Justicialist Party figure elected mayor in 1983, was elected Vice President of Argentina in 1989, Governor of Buenos Aires Province in 1991, and was appointed interim President of Argentina, serving in 2002-03 ; he was among the candidates for the presidency in 2011.