Editing Timeline of computing 1980–1989 (section)

==1989==
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| January
| US
| [[Apple Computer]] released [[Macintosh SE/30]]. Like the SE of March 1987 it only had a [[monochrome]] [[display adapter]] but was fitted with the newer 68030 processor.
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| March
| ?
| Command set for [[E-IDE]] [[disk drive]]s was defined by CAM (formed Oct. 1988).{{citation needed|date=May 2012}} This supports drives over 528 [[megabyte|MB]] in size. Early controllers often imposed a limit of 2.1 [[gigabyte|GB]], then later ones 8.4GB. Newer controllers support much higher capacities. Drives greater in size than 2.1GB must be [[drive partition|partition]]ed under [[DOS]] since the drive structure (laid down in MS-DOS 4) used by DOS and even [[Windows 95]] prevents partitions bigger than 2.1 GB. EIDE controllers also support the [[ATAPI]] interface that is used by most [[CD-ROM]] drives produced after its introduction. Newer implementations to EIDE, designed for the [[PCI bus]], can achieve data transfer at up to 16.67 [[MB/s]]. A later enhancement, called [[UDMA]], allows transfer rates of up to 33.3 MB/s.
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| March
| US
| The [[Macintosh IIcx]] released, with the same basic capabilities of the [[Macintosh IIx]] but in a more compact half-width case.
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| March
| [[Switzerland]]
| [[Tim Berners-Lee]] submitted a memorandum, titled "''Information Management: A Proposal''" to the management at [[CERN]].<ref>{{cite web |last1=Berners-Lee |first1=Tim |title=Information Management: A Proposal |url=https://www.w3.org/History/1989/proposal.html |access-date=16 February 2025 |website=w3.org |publisher=The World Wide Web Consortium |archive-date=1 April 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100401051011/https://www.w3.org/History/1989/proposal.html |url-status=live }}</ref> The proposal talks of {{quote inline|q=|i=yes|...  a "web" of notes with links (like references) between them ...}}.

Tim Berners-Lee submitted a further proposal on 12 November 1990 which coined the term [[World Wide Web|WorldWideWeb]].<ref>{{cite web |last1=Berners-Lee |first1=Tim |author-link1=Tim Berners-Lee |last2=Cailliau |first2=Robert |author-link2=Robert Cailliau |date=12 November 1990 |title=WorldWideWeb: Proposal for a HyperText Project |url=http://w3.org/Proposal.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150502080527/http://www.w3.org/Proposal.html |archive-date=2 May 2015 |access-date=16 February 2025}}</ref>
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| 10 April
| US
| [[80486DX]] released by [[Intel]]. It contains the equivalent of about 1.2&nbsp;million [[transistors]]. At the time of release the fastest version ran at 25&nbsp;MHz and achieved up to 20 [[Million instructions per second|MIPS]].

Later versions, such as the DX/2 and DX/4 versions achieved internal clock rates of up to 120 [[MHz]].
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| July-October
| US
| The [[Video Electronics Standards Association]], an industry consortium of major [[SVGA]] card manufacturers, was formed and introduced the [[VESA BIOS Extensions]] standard.<ref name="CA SOS VESA Entity Detail">{{cite web|title=Business Entity Detail: Video Electronics Standards Association|url=http://kepler.sos.ca.gov|author=California Secretary of State|author-link=Secretary of State of California|id=Entity Number C1645094|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150315010639/http://kepler.sos.ca.gov/|archive-date=March 15, 2015|access-date=July 4, 2022|df=mdy-all}}To retrieve the information, search for Entity Number C1645094.</ref>
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| September
| US
| [[Apple Computer]] [[Macintosh IIci]] released based on a faster version of the 68030{{snd}}now running at 25&nbsp;MHz, and achieved 6.3 MIPS. Apple also released the [[Macintosh Portable]]{{snd}}the first [[notebook computer]] Mac, which went back to the original 68000 processor (but now ran it at 16&nbsp;MHz to achieve 1.3 MIPS). It had a [[monochrome display]].
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| November
| [[Singapore]]
| Release of [[Sound Blaster Card]], by [[Creative Labs]], its success was ensured by maintaining compatibility with the widely supported [[AdLib]] [[soundcard]] of 1987.
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| ?
| US
| [[Lotus Notes]] software launched.<ref name=Kirschenbaum2013 />
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| ?
| US
| [[Open Architecture System Integration Strategy]] is presented by [[Apple Computer]] as the philosophy behind the Mac in marketing beginning in 1989.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Tebbutt |first=David |date=1989 |title=Apple philosophy is an Oasis for users |url=http://tebbo.com/archive/pd890701.htm |access-date=2025-02-14 |website=tebbo.com}}</ref>
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