Computer-related introductions in 1987

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electronic flash memory data storage device used for storing digital information

MINIX is a Unix-like operating system based on a microkernel architecture, first released in 1987 and written by American-Dutch computer scientist Andrew S. Tanenbaum. It was designed as a clone of the Unix operating system and one that could run on affordable, Intel 8086-based home computers; MINIX was targeted for use in classrooms by computer science students at universities.

interface for connecting computer peripherals

character encoding

personal computer by Commodore

second generation of personal computers by IBM

general purpose home computer

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home computer

8-bit character set for Central and Eastern European languages in Latin script

personal computer by Apple

personal computer by Apple

video game console

32-bit microprocessor

video subsystem built into the motherboard of the IBM PS/2 Model 30

ASCII-based standard character encodings for Arabic

tmpfs (short for temporary file system) is a temporary file storage paradigm implemented in many Unix-like operating systems. It is intended to appear as a mounted file system, but data is stored in volatile memory rather than on a persistent storage device.

Laptop

database product from Sybase

standard

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floating-point unit for the Intel 80386 series of microprocessors

family of personal computers by Apple

file format for storing go (weiqi, baduk) games and other related games

external audio hardware that outputs digital sound

UKNC () is a Soviet PDP-11-compatible educational micro computer, aimed at teaching school informatics courses. It is also known as Elektronika MS-0511. UKNC stands for Educational Computer by Scientific Centre. It was designed by the Scientific Centre in Zelenograd.

desktop computer released by Canon Inc. in 1987

Computer form factor

South Korean character set standard to represent hangul and hanja characters on a computer

Sun-4 is a series of Unix workstations and servers produced by Sun Microsystems, first appearing in July 1987, with the launch of the Sun 4/260. The original Sun-4 series were VMEbus-based systems similar to the earlier Sun-3 series, but employing microprocessors based on Sun's own SPARC V7 RISC architecture in place of the 68k family processors of previous Sun models.

computer

portable computer

Vector-06C () is a home computer with unique graphics capabilities that was designed and mass-produced in USSR in the late 1980s.

TIM 011 is an educational or personal computer for school microcomputer developed by Mihajlo Pupin Institute of Serbia in 1987. There were about 1200 TIM-011 computers in Serbian schools in the starting from 1987 and in 1990s.

series of personal home computers

1987 computer by Compaq

laptop computer made in 1987