David „Dave“ Joseph Smith (* 2.April 1950 in San Francisco, Kalifornien; † 31. Mai 2022 in Detroit, Michigan) war ein amerikanischer Ingenieur und Musiker sowie Gründer der Synthesizer-Firma Sequential.Smith war neben dem Sounddesigner John Bowen verantwortlich für den ersten kommerziellen polyphonen und mikroprozessorgesteuerten Synthesizer Prophet-5 und später …

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History Development on the Las Vegas Strip. Entrepreneur Sheldon Adelson and his partners Richard Katzeff, Irwin Chafetz, Ted Cutler, and Jordan Shapiro bought the Sands Hotel in 1989. Adelson and his partners financed their venture with investments in personal computers and trade shows, founding the computer trade show COMDEX in 1979. They opened the 1.2 million …

Historia. Pierwszy historycznie smartfon powstał w 1992 roku – było to prototypowe urządzenie o nazwie Simon, które IBM pokazał na targach COMDEX i wprowadził na rynek w 1993 roku. Oprócz funkcji telefonu komórkowego oferowało ono kalendarz, książkę adresową, kalkulator, notatnik, pocztę elektroniczną i gry. Użytkownik korzystał z rysika.

ClearType is Microsoft's implementation of subpixel rendering technology in rendering text in a font system. ClearType attempts to improve the appearance of text on certain types of computer display screens by sacrificing color fidelity for additional intensity variation. This trade-off is asserted to work well on LCD flat-panel monitors.. ClearType was first announced at the …

GEM (for Graphics Environment Manager) is an operating environment released by Digital Research (DRI) in 1985 for use with the DOS operating system on Intel 8088 and Motorola 68000 microprocessors.. GEM is known primarily as the graphical user interface (GUI) for the Atari ST series of computers, and was also supplied with a series of IBM PC-compatible computers …

The Intel 486, officially named i486 and also known as 80486, is a microprocessor.It is a higher-performance follow-up to the Intel 386.The i486 was introduced in 1989. It represents the fourth generation of binary compatible CPUs following the 8086 of 1978, the Intel 80286 of 1982, and 1985's i386.. It was the first tightly-pipelined x86 design as well as the first x86 chip to include …

Subpixel rendering is a way to increase the apparent resolution of a computer's liquid crystal display (LCD) or organic light-emitting diode (OLED) display by rendering pixels to take into account the screen type's physical properties. It takes advantage of the fact that each pixel on a color LCD is actually composed of individual red, green, and blue or other color subpixels to …

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Windows 98 (chamado pelo codinome Memphis, [1] durante seu desenvolvimento) é um sistema operacional com interface gráfica desenvolvido pela Microsoft. É o segundo maior lançamento da família de sistemas operacionais Windows 9x, e é o sucessor do Windows 95.Ele foi lançado no formato RTM em 15 de Maio de 1998, e lançado em sua versão varejo em 25 de Junho de 1998.

Windows 98 (cuyo nombre en clave fue Memphis) es un sistema operativo gráfico publicado el 25 de junio de 1998 por Microsoft y el sucesor de Windows 95.Como su predecesor, es un producto monolítico híbrido de 16 y 32 bits.. La primera edición de Windows 98 fue designada por los números de versión internos 4.10.1998, o 4.10.1998A si había sido actualizado con el …

Windows 9x is a community nickname given for Microsoft's line of consumer-oriented operating systems released from 1995 to 2000. The series includes Windows 95, 98, and ME (although the latter OS does not match the naming scheme of the two prior OSes). All Windows 9x operating systems are based on the Windows 95 kernel and MS-DOS, with the MS-DOS portion running …

1985年5月のCOMDEXでマイクロソフトはWindowsを出展し、6月に発売すると断言した。1985年6月28日、本来ならWindowsの発売日であったが、Windowsのテスト版がソフトウェア開発者やハードウェアメーカーに配布されるのみだった。

Formal theory. Formally, a string is a finite, ordered sequence of characters such as letters, digits or spaces. The empty string is the special case where the sequence has length zero, so there are no symbols in the string.