3 Nov 2011

Macintosh Glorious History


On January 24, 1984, Apple Computer Inc. (now Apple Inc.) introduced the Macintosh personal computer, with the Macintosh 128K mode. The Macintosh is often credited with popularizing the graphical user interface. Steve Jobs and several other Macintosh team members had previewed. Apple made a bold move, thinking different long before it became an ad slogan. And the rest, as they say, is history, a history Low End Mac examines in a series of articles, each covering one year in the life of the Macintosh.

The Macintosh project started in the late 1970s with Jef Raskin. The Macintosh project started in the late 1970s with Jef Raskin. Smith's first Macintosh board was built to Raskin's design specifications: it had 64 kilobytes (kB) of RAM, used the Motorola 6809E microprocessor. Raskin finally left the Macintosh project in 1981 over a personality conflict with Jobs, and team member Andy Hertzfeld said that the final Macintosh design is closer to Jobs' ideas than Raskin's. Apple improved Macintosh computers by introducing models equipped with newly available processors from the 68k lineup.

Legened Danish Richie biography

Dennis Ritchie :
Born :September 9, 1941Bronxville, New York, U.S.
Fields :Computer science
Institutions : Lucent Technologies Bell Labs
Alma mater : Harvard University
Known for :ALTRAN
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BCPL
C
Multics
Unix
Notable
awards :Turing Award National Medal of Technology
Died :found dead October 12, 2011 (aged 70) Berkeley Heights, New Jersey, U.S.

Ritchie was best known as the creator of the C programming language, a key developer of the UNIX operating system, and co-author of The C Programming Language, and was the 'R' in K&R (a common reference to the book's authors Kernighan and Ritchie). In 1983, Ritchie and Thompson jointly received the Turing Award for their development of generic operating systems theory. In 1997, both Ritchie and Thompson were made Fellows of the Computer History Museum, "for co-creation of the UNIX operating system, On April 21, 1999, Thompson and Ritchie jointly received the National Medal of Technology of 1998. In 2011, Ritchie, along with Thompson, was awarded the Japan Prize for Information and Communications for his work. Ritchie was found dead on October 12, 2011, at the age of 70 at his home in Berkeley Heights, New Jersey, where he lived alone.[1] First news of his death came from his former colleague.

The Navigation Acts of British


Navigation Acts, the name given to laws regulating trade and commerce between Great Britain, its colonies, and other parts of the world. The first act, passed in 1651, stipulated that no merchandise was to be carried to England or its colonies except by English ships built and manned by English subjects. The Dutch fishing industry was also affected because the Act stipulated that salt-fish and fish-oil could only be imported or exported from Commonwealth territories in English vessels.

The Navigation Act was one of the few pieces of legislation from the Commonwealth era that continued after the Restoration, when it was actually extended to forbid exports as well as imports in foreign ships. Further Navigation Acts imposing various trade restrictions were passed throughout the colonial period of the 18th century.