The Online Computer Library Center ( OCLC ) of Dublin, Ohio, United States, acquired the trademark and copyrights associated with the DDC when it bought Forest Press in 1988.

* 1990 – Robert Tappan Morris, Jr. is convicted of releasing the 1988 Internet Computer worm.

The National Computer Board ( NCB ) was also set up in 1988 by the National Board Act ( No 43 ) to advise the Government on the formulation of national policies for the development of the IT sector and promote an IT culture in the country.

In 1988, MIPS Computer Systems designs were noticed by Silicon Graphics ( SGI ) and the company adopted the MIPS architecture for its computers.

NeXT introduced the first NeXT Computer in 1988, and the smaller NeXTstation in 1990.

He was then replaced in 1988 by the former manager of German computer company Nixdorf Computer AG, Arno Bohn, who made some costly miscalculations that led to his dismissal soon after, along with that of the development director, Dr. Ulrich Bez, who was formerly responsible for BMW's Z1 model, and today is CEO of Aston Martin.

* Douglas K. Smith, Robert C. Alexander, Fumbling the Future: How Xerox Invented, Then Ignored, the First Personal Computer ( William Morrow and Company, New York, 1988 ) ISBN 1-58348-266-0

A preview release of NeXTSTEP ( version 0. 8 ) was shown at the launch of the NeXT Computer on October 12, 1988.

A 1988 review in Computer Gaming World praised the game for being " pure and simple, very playable and mentally challenging ", citing its addictive qualities.

The NeXT Computer ( also called the NeXT Computer System ) was a high-end workstation computer developed, manufactured, and sold by NeXT Inc., a company founded by Steve Jobs, from 1988 until 1990.

The format was co-developed by Apple Computer in 1988 based on Electronic Arts ' Interchange File Format ( IFF, widely used on Amiga systems ) and is most commonly used on Apple Macintosh computer systems.

Atanasoff ’ s Computer ,” Scientific American, August 1988 ( Archived 2009-10-31 )

The company changed its name to " Dell Computer Corporation " in 1988 and began expanding globally.

( The specification for AIFF, the big-endian analogue of RIFF, was published by Apple Computer in 1988.

BIX online news report from the West Coast Computer Faire, 1988

Category: Computer companies established in 1988

Computer Gaming World awarded Wasteland the Adventure Game of the Year award in 1988.

In 1992, Computer Gaming World wrote that this " classic mix of combat and problem-solving " was the favorite of the magazine's readers in 1988, adding, " the way in which Wastelands NPCs related to the player characters, the questions of dealing with moral dillemas, and the treatment of skills set this game apart.

Generally well received by the gaming press, Pool of Radiance won the Origins Award for " Best Fantasy or Science Fiction Computer Game of 1988 ".

Computer Gaming World printed a preview of Pool of Radiance in its July 1988 issue, in which the reviewer noted a sense of deja vu.

Pool of Radiance was well received by the gaming press and won the Origins Award for Best Fantasy or Science Fiction Computer Game of 1988.

Founded by a marketing manager from Apollo Computer, Inc., Bill Warner, a prototype of their first digital nonlinear editing system ( the Avid / 1 ) was shown in a private suite at the National Association of Broadcasters ( NAB ) convention in April 1988.

Robert Tappan Morris ( born November 8, 1965 ) is an American computer scientist, best known for creating the Morris Worm in 1988, considered the first computer worm on the Internet-and subsequently becoming the first person convicted under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.

Because these areas have tribal sovereignty, states have limited ability to forbid gambling there, as codified by the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act of 1988.

This hobby has become increasingly popular with the Casino Chips & Gaming Tokens Collectors Club formed in 1988.

* October 17, 1988 — Indian Gaming Regulatory Act,,

won many awards at the time of its release, including Computer Gaming Worlds ' Action Game of the Year ' for 1988, as well as two Origins Awards, ' Best Fantasy or Science Fiction Computer Game of 1987 ' and ' Best Screen Graphics in a Home Computer Game of 1987 '.

The company changed its name again in 1988, to United Gaming Inc., acknowledging United Coin as its principal asset.

In 1988, Congress passed the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act, which recognized the right of Native American tribes to establish gambling and gaming facilities on their reservations as long as the states in which they are located have some form of legalized gambling.

In 1988, CGW won the Origins Award for Best Professional Adventure Gaming Magazine of 1987.

In 1988, the United States Congress passed the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act ( IGRA ), which allowed federally recognized tribes to establish casinos on tribal property.

The Indian Gaming Regulatory Act, passed by Congress in 1988 ( after the act that restored federal recognition to the Alabama-Coushatta ), established the framework that governs Indian gaming.

In 1988 Congress passed the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act, a statute requiring the states to negotiate with Indian tribes to create compacts governing Indian Gaming.

When the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe became a Gaming Compact Tribe in 1988, a large rush of eligible enrollees attempted to enroll with the Mille Lacs Band.

In 1988, several employees, angry about being placed on leave as punishment for talking to the plaintiff attorney, began speaking to the Gaming Control Board and local media about two Nazi-themed parties Engelstad had held at the Imperial Palace.

However, Macworld named it Best Adventure Game of the Year in 1988 and in 2000 listed it as one of The Top Ten Mac Gaming Thingies of the Last 1, 000 Years.

* Daglow, Don, The Changing Role of Computer Game Designers, Computer Gaming World, August, 1988, p. 18.

* World Book encyclopedia 1988

* 1988 – Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II officially opens World Expo ' 88 in Brisbane, Australia.

* 1988 – The United States launches Operation Praying Mantis against Iranian naval forces in the largest naval battle since World War II.

* 1988 – Japanese American internment: U. S. President Ronald Reagan signs the Civil Liberties Act of 1988, providing $ 20, 000 payments to Japanese Americans who were either interned in or relocated by the United States during World War II.

* The World Book encyclopedia set, 1988.

* 1988 – In Israel, John Demjanuk is sentenced to death for war crimes committed in World War II.

After winning the Dutch Mixing Championships ( DMC ) in 1988, he was invited for The World Mix Championships in the London Royal Hall and won third place in a fierce competition.

* Dennis W. Hess, CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION OF DIELECTRIC AND METAL FILMSfree-download from Electronic Materials and Processing: Proceedings of the First Electronic Materials and Processing Congress held in conjunction with the 1988 World Materials Congress Chicago, Illinois, USA, 24-30 September 1988, Edited by Prabjit Singh ( Sponsored by the Electronic Materials and Processing Division of ASM INTERNATIONAL )

In 1988, Monitor Reports was supplanted by a nightly half-hour news show, World Monitor, which was broadcast by the Discovery Channel.

The World Book Encyclopedia Volume 5, 1988, ISBN 0-7166-0089-7.

* The Kelly Family recorded the song twice: live version is included on their 1988 album Live and a studio version-on 1990 New World.

Home games are played at the AWD-Arena, which hosted matches in the 1974 and 2006 World Cups and the Euro 1988.

It was first established in 1988 by two United Nations organizations, the World Meteorological Organization ( WMO ) and the United Nations Environment Programme ( UNEP ), and later endorsed by the United Nations General Assembly through Resolution 43 / 53.

Also in 1988, Polgár won the under-12 " Boys " section of the World Youth Chess and Peace Festival in Timişoara, Romania.

Russ and her work are prominently featured in Sarah LeFanu's Chinks in the World Machine: Feminism and Science Fiction ( 1988 ).

He has been awarded a number of prestigious prizes including the Tswett Medal ( 1975 ), an American Chemical Society chromatography award ( 1980 ), the World Meteorological Organization Norbert Gerbier Prize ( 1988 ), the Dr A. H. Heineken Prize for the Environment ( 1990 ) and the Royal Geographical Society Discovery Lifetime award ( 2001 ).

Klaus Emil Julius Fuchs ( 29 December 1911 – 28 January 1988 ) was a German-British theoretical physicist and atomic spy who in 1950 was convicted of supplying information from the American, British and Canadian atomic bomb research ( the Manhattan Project ) to the USSR during and shortly after World War II.

In 1988, Libya was found to be in the process of constructing a chemical weapons plant at Rabta, a plant which became the largest such facility in the Third World.

* Michael Palin: Around the World in 80 Days ( Travel 1988 ; Programme release 1989 ): travelling as closely as possible the path described in the famous Jules Verne story without using aircraft.

He also worked as a co-host and reporter for two World Series ( 1986 and 1988 ).

* Patrick J. Geary: Before France and Germany: The Creation and Transformation of the Merovingian World, Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press, 1988.

* Might and Magic II: Gates to Another World ( 1988 ; Apple II, Amiga, DOS, Commodore 64, Mac, Sega Genesis, Super Nintendo Entertainment System ( Europe only ), SNES ( Japan-only, different from the European version ), MSX, PC-Engine CD )

Since World War II, Iraq's use of mustard gas against Iranian troops and Kurds ( Iran-Iraq war of 1981 – 1988 ) has been the only large-scale use of any chemical weapons.