Programmeerimiskeel
Seattle Computer Products renames QDOS to 86-DOS, releasing it as version 0.3. Microsoft
then bought non-exclusive rights to market 86-DOS.
Logo Computer Systems is formed in Montreal, Canada, to market the public domain
language LOGO.
Microsoft begins work on its first microcomputer application, a spreadsheet program initially
called Electronic Paper.
Digital Research releases CP/M-86 for Intel 8086- and 8088-based systems.
Intel announces the iAPX-432 32-bit microprocessor. Intel later builds the 80286 as a step
between the 8086 and the 432.
The term RISC (reduced instruction set computer) is coined by Professor David Patterson
of the University of California in Berkeley. He designs a microprocessor called RISC I.
Intel introduces the 8087 math coprocessor.
1981
IBM introduced its PC, igniting a fast growth of the personal computer market
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