* 1988 — Barry Devlin and Paul Murphy publish the article An architecture for a business and information system in IBM Systems Journal where they introduce the term " business data warehouse ".

In 1988, the Gang of Nine IBM PC compatible manufacturers put forth the 32-bit EISA standard and in the process retroactively renamed the AT bus to " ISA " to avoid infringing IBM's trademark on its PC / AT computer.

In 1988, during the so-called " Unix wars ", DEC joined with IBM, Hewlett-Packard, and others to form the Open Software Foundation ( OSF ) to develop a version of Unix.

Realizing the importance of compatibility with the thousands of programs written in legacy code, IBM launched the AS / 400 midrange computer line in 1988.

This caused many of AT & T's other licensees of UNIX System V to become concerned that this would put Sun in an advantaged position, and it ultimately led to Digital Equipment, HP, IBM, and others forming the Open Software Foundation ( OSF ) in 1988.

In 1988, GameTek released a home computer game of Press Your Luck for IBM PC compatibles and the Commodore 64.

In the 1980s he won a number of very strong tournaments, including Amsterdam IBM in 1981, Wijk aan Zee 1981, and 1985, Linares 1988, the 1989 Euwe Memorial, and the 1989 World Cup tournament in Rotterdam.

IBM Corporation, 1988.

IBM Corporation, 1988.

Pool of Radiance was released in June 1988 ; it was initially available on the Commodore 64, Apple II series and IBM PC compatible computers.

On July 6, 1988, the day of the elections, a system shutdown of the IBM AS / 400 that the government was using to count the votes occurred.

Presentation Manager ( PM ) is the graphical user interface ( GUI ) that IBM and Microsoft introduced in version 1. 1 of their operating system OS / 2 in late 1988.

In 1988, Watcom released their first C compiler for the IBM PC platform ( and compatibles ).

In 1988, Quantum began offering the AppleLink online service for Apple and PC-Link for IBM compatible computers.

Based on his PhD research, his pioneering architecture of technology-independent machine interfaces ( TIMI ) and single-level stores has appeared in these eight generations of IBM hardware: System / 38 in 1978, the CISC AS / 400 in 1988, the RISC AS / 400 in 1995, the web server AS / 400e in 1999 ( supporting HTTP and TCP / IP ), the eServer iSeries, the System i5, the System i, and IBM Power Systems running IBM i ( April, 2008 ).

The Compis project was criticized from the start, and as the move to IBM PC compatibility came it was left behind and finally cancelled in 1988 although it was in use well into the 1990s.

In 1988, researchers at IBM's Zürich Research Institute successfully spelled the letters " IBM " in xenon atoms on a cryogenic copper surface, grossly validating the approach.

is a skateboarding game released by Electronic Arts in 1988 for the Sinclair ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64, Atari ST, Apple IIgs, Amstrad CPC, and IBM Compatibles running MS-DOS.

Between 1986 and 1988, Payette worked as a systems engineer for IBM Canada's Science Engineering division.

First edition of the pink shirt book The second ( 1988 ) edition, renamed The New Peter Norton Programmer's Guide to the IBM PC & PS / 2, again featured the crossed arms, pink shirt cover image.

* The first Card Sharks home game was a computer-based video game released by Sharedata, Inc. and Softie, Inc. in 1988 for the Apple II and Commodore 64 units and all IBM compatible computers.

* IBM Corporation ( January 14, 1980 – November 18, 1988 )

In 2011, it was announced that Barrymore had been cast alongside John Krasinski in Ken Kwapis's Big Miracle ( 2012 ), a romantic drama based on the 1989 book Freeing the Whales, which covers Operation Breakthrough, the 1988 international effort to rescue gray whales from being trapped in ice near Point Barrow, Alaska.

It was announced in September 1988 by a consortium of PC clone vendors ( the " Gang of Nine ") as a counter to IBM's use of its proprietary Micro Channel architecture ( MCA ) in its PS / 2 series.

A 4-year economic reform plan was announced in 1988 but was not pursued.

Although announced in 1988, the AS / 400 remains IBM's most recent major architectural shift that was developed wholly internally.

The FN only got 5 % in the 1988 cantonal elections, while the RPR announced it would reject any alliance with the FN, now including at local level.

On August 2, 1988, the plaintiff and defendants announced a settlement of the lawsuit, which included a Confidential Cross-License Agreement under which SEA licensed PKWARE for all the ARC-compatible programs published by PKWARE during the period beginning with the first release of PKXARC in late 1985 through July 31, 1988, in return for an undisclosed payment.

In 1988 Phil Bakes, the president of Eastern Air Lines, announced plans to lay off 4, 000 employees and eliminate and reduce service to airports in the Western United States ; he said that the airline was going " back to our roots " in the East Coast of the United States.

In 1988, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission announced that, although it was possible to further decontaminate the Unit 2 site, the remaining radioactivity had been sufficiently contained as to pose no threat to public health and safety.

American announced that it would establish a base at MIA in August 1988.

The younger Gore announced his 1988 and 2000 presidential bids, as well as his 1992 vice-presidential bid, from the steps of the Smith County Courthouse.

The newly-elected mayor, 66-year old Robert Devaney, announced on Tuesday May 17, 1988 that he was going to shut down the municipal court that had processed speeding tickets.

For servers the technical limitations of the old ISA were too great, and in late 1988 the " Gang of Nine ", led by Compaq, announced a rival high performance bus-Extended Industry Standard Architecture ( EISA ).

They announced a new lineup for the tour, featuring guitarist Earl Slick, who held previous stints with David Bowie and John Lennon, Bassist Kenny Aaronson, who toured with Bob Dylan in 1988.

It resumed in 1988, until 2004, when a local adaptation was announced, which NHK refused to be involved in.

An emergency procedure enabling an Act to come into force on Royal Assent being announced at an ordinary sitting of Tynwald, subject to its being promulgated within 12 months, was introduced in 1916 ; since 1988 this has been the normal procedure, and an Act ceases to have effect unless promulgated within 18 months after Royal Assent is announced in Tynwald.

Lott ran for the Senate in 1988, after 42-year incumbent John Stennis announced he would not run for another term.

In 1988 Vice President Bush announced his candidacy for President to succeed Reagan.

In 1988, a planned $ 400-million split between MGM and UA was announced by Kerkorian.

In a surprise press conference in 1985, Babbitt instead announced he would forgo the Senate race to concentrate on a White House bid in 1988.

On 14 July 1988, President François Mitterrand announced the construction and the expansion of one of the largest and most modern libraries in the world, intended to cover all fields of knowledge, and designed to be accessible to all, using the most modern data transfer technologies, which could be consulted from a distance, and which would collaborate with other European libraries.

Sadly, after just a few years in 1988, it was announced that no more new equipment for 934 would be made, the specification was withdrawn and the band was ' frozen '.

An emergency procedure enabling an Act to come into force on Royal Assent being announced at an ordinary sitting of Tynwald, subject to its being promulgated within 12 months, was introduced in 1916 ; since 1976 this has been the ' default ' procedure, and since 1988 an Act ceases to have effect unless promulgated within 18 months after Royal Assent is announced in Tynwald.