Queensrÿche fared better later the decade, releasing the rock opera Operation: Mindcrime in 1988, which tells a story of a young man, Nikki, awoken from a coma suddenly remembering work done as a political assassin.

The subsequent " Building Empires " tour was the first full-fledged tour to feature Queensrÿche as a headlining act ( the band had previously headlined a tour in Japan in support of " Operation: Mindcrime " and had headlined a handful of club and theater shows in the United States between 1984 and 1988 ).

* AC / DC — October 26, 1983, with Fastway, October 5, 1985, with Yngwie Malmsteen, August 3, 1986, with Queensrÿche, July 30, 1988, with White Lion, December 7, 1990, with Love / Hate, April 2, 1996, with The Poor and September 3, 2000, with Slash's Snakepit

* KISS-February 4, 1976, September 24, 1979, February 10 and December 30, with Queensrÿche, 1984, January 20, 1986 and January 7, 1988

* Metallica-November 22, 1988, with Queensrÿche

* KISS-November 28, 1974, November 29, 1975, November 25, 1976, January 5, 1978, June 24, 1979, January 6, 1985, with Queensrÿche and February 7, 1988

In 1988 Apple had released MacTCP, a system that allowed the Mac to support TCP / IP on machines with suitable Ethernet hardware.

COCONET, a BBS system made by Coconut Computing, Inc., was released in 1988 and only supported a GUI interface ( no text interface was available ), and worked in EGA / VGA graphics mode, which made it stand out from the text-based BBS systems.

Known as " Big Mac ", the encyclopedia became the standard baseball reference until 1988, when Total Baseball was released by Warner Books using more sophisticated technology.

In subsequent years, Manço released Değmesin Yağlı Boya ( 1986 ), Sahibinden İhtiyaçtan ( 1988 ) and Darısı Başınıza ( 1989 ), all containing a couple of hit songs and demonstrating his new sound.

The next Coldcut single, released in February 1988, was " Doctorin ' the House ", featuring singer Yazz.

Eventually titled Temple of Low Men, their second album was released in July 1988 with strong promotion by Capitol Records.

A 1993 compilation called Lucky Thirteen was released, but it only covered Young's 1982 – 1988 output.

Initial version, released in 1984, was nothing but MS-DOS 1. 0 ported to Z80 ; but in 1988 it evolved to version 2, offering facilities such as subdirectories, memory management and environment strings.

Version 2. 0 of the benchmark, released by Weicker and Richardson in March 1988, had a number of changes intended to foil a range of compiler techniques.

During the interim, Mark Mothersbaugh began composing music for the TV show Pee-Wee's Playhouse, and released an elaborately packaged solo cassette, Musik for Insomniaks, which was later expanded and released as two CDs in 1988.

The band released Total Devo in 1988 on Enigma Records.

In 1988 Dark Horse Comics released a six-issue limited series, Godzilla, which was an American adaptation of the Japanese manga adaptation of The Return of Godzilla.

Software house Gremlin released Gary Lineker's Superstar Soccer in 1987, Gary Lineker's Superskills in 1988, and Gary Lineker's Hot Shot in 1989 for 8-bit platforms.

Carcass released Reek of Putrefaction in 1988, which John Peel declared his favorite album of the year despite its very poor production.

A GUI, called the Presentation Manager ( PM ), was not available with OS / 2 until version 1. 1, released in 1988.

His next album Power was released in 1988, under his own label Rhyme Syndicate, and it was a more assured and impressive record, earning him strong reviews and his second gold record.

In 1988, the animated film Akira was released.

To mark the club's appearance in the 1988 FA Cup Final, Liverpool released a song known as the " Anfield Rap ", featuring John Barnes and other members of the squad.

It was publicly released in November 1988.

He is immediately detained and will not be released until August 3, 1988.

The first release as Irresistible Force was the single, " I Want To " ( 1988 ), but success came with the first album, Flying High, released in 1992 on Rising High Records.

They released their first design, the R2000, in 1985, improving the design as the R3000 in 1988.

Two months later, Reagan and Gorbachev agreed to sign a treaty to eliminate intermediate-range nuclear weapons in Europe, and the Supreme Soviet ordered Rust to be released in August 1988 as a goodwill gesture to the west.

While, in 1988, Windows / 386 2. 1 could run several cooperatively multitasked DOS applications, including expanded memory ( EMS ) emulation, OS / 2 1. 3, released in 1991, was still limited to one " DOS box ".

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

* 1988 – The strikes a mine in the Persian Gulf during Operation Earnest Will.

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.

* 1988 – Three Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteers are killed by Special Air Service on the territory of Gibraltar in the conclusion of Operation Flavius.

( the only exceptions being the Cod Wars, the Turbot War and Operation Fork — all of which had no casualties ) Jack Levy ( 1988 ) made an oft-quoted assertion that the theory is " as close as anything we have to an empirical law in international relations ".

* Sergeant Dakota Meyer ( b. 1988 ), born and initially educated in Adair County, received the Medal of Honor in 2011 for his actions in Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan in 2009

In 1988 ASMs were fired by both American and Iranian forces in Operation Praying Mantis in the Persian Gulf.

* Operation: Mindcrime ( 1988 )

* Operation Touchstone — 1987 – 1988

* Operation Cornerstone — 1988 – 1989

Majid was first sentenced to hang in 2007 for his role in a 1988 military campaign against ethnic Kurds, codenamed Operation Anfal ; in 2008 he also twice received a death sentence for his crimes against the Iraqi Shia Muslims, in particular for his role in crushing the 1991 uprisings in southern Iraq and his involvement in the 1999 killings in the Sadr City ( then Saddam City ) district of Baghdad.

In 1988 Ashton-Tate filed suit against Fox Software and Santa Cruz Operation ( SCO ) for copying dBase's " structure and sequence " in FoxBase + ( SCO marketed XENIX and UNIX versions of the Fox products ).

* Operation Praying Mantis, a 1988 naval battle between US and Iranian forces

* Operation Golden Pheasant – Honduras, 1988

Operation Golden Pheasant was an emergency deployment of U. S. troops to Honduras in 1988, as a result of threatening actions by the forces of the Nicaraguans.

In early March, 1988, the Nicaraguan Sandinista government launched Operation Danto to overrun Contra rebel supply caches in the San Andrés de Bocay region, crossing into Honduran territory in their drive.

* A 1988 U. S. Army news archive about 7th Infantry Division ( Light ) QRF deployment on Operation Golden Pheasant.

Operation Flavius was the name given to an operation by a Special Air Service ( SAS ) team in Gibraltar on 6 March 1988 tasked to prevent a Provisional Irish Republican Army ( IRA ) bomb attack.

On September 1, 1988 the 1st Canadian Division Headquarters was established to serve as a staging base for the deployment of troops and materiel on active operations ; in this role it supported Operation Friction which was Canada's support to the United Nations for the Persian Gulf War in 1991.

It is also the name of an Iranian Saam Class frigate sunk in Operation Praying Mantis by American forces in 1988.

His Broadway credits include Ballad of the Sad Cafe and Operation Sidewinder and in 1988 he appeared in Peter Brook's production of The Cherry Orchard.

* Andrew James Wray Geddes ( 1906 – 1988 ), British Air Commodore responsible for the planning of Operation Manna