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==1995== {| class="wikitable sortable" ! Date ! class="unsortable" | Event |- valign="top" | ? | [[Jaz drive]] removable hard disk storage introduced.<ref name="CornellTimeline">{{cite web|url=http://www.dpworkshop.org/dpm-eng/timeline/viewall.html|title=Digital Preservation and Technology Timeline|author=Cornell University Library|year=2003|work=Digital Preservation Management|location=USA|access-date=2017-12-07|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150806054331/http://www.dpworkshop.org/dpm-eng/timeline/viewall.html|archive-date=August 6, 2015|url-status=dead|author-link=Cornell University Library}}</ref> |- valign="top" | ? | [[Zip drive]] removable floppy disk storage introduced.<ref name=CornellTimeline /> |- valign="top" | March 1995 | Linus released Linux Kernel v1.2.0 (Linux 95). |- valign="top" | March 27, 1995 | Intel released Pentium processor, 120 MHz version. |- valign="top" | May 23, 1995 | [[Sun Microsystems]] first announces [[Java (software platform)|Java]] at the SunWorld conference. |- valign="top" | June 1, 1995 | Intel released Pentium processor, 133 MHz version. |- valign="top" | August 24, 1995 | Microsoft releases [[Windows 95]], replacing Windows 3.1 with a pre-emptively multitasked 32-bit operating system that integrated MS-DOS and Windows. |- valign="top" | October 3, 1995 | [[Be Inc.]] launch the [[BeBox]], featuring two [[PowerPC 600#PowerPC 603|PowerPC 603]] processors running at 66 MHz, and running their new operating system [[BeOS]]. |- valign="top" | November 1, 1995 | Intel released Pentium Pro, 150, 166, 180, and 200 MHz versions, on one day. It was the first product based on the [[P6 (microarchitecture)|P6 microarchitecture]], later used in the Pentium II, III, M, and Core processors. It achieves 440 [[Instructions per second|MIPS]] and contains 5.5 million transistors; this is nearly 2,400 times as many as the first microprocessor, the 4004; and capable of 70,000 times as many instructions per second. |- valign="top" | November 6, 1995 | [[3dfx]] releases Voodoo, the first consumer 3D accelerator, able to render scenes in real time and in high resolution. GLQuake (an [[OpenGL]] port of [[Quake (video game)|Quake]]) is the first popular game using this new technology. Other games soon follow, including Tomb Raider. |- valign="top" | December 1995 | [[JavaScript]] development announced by [[Netscape Communications Corporation|Netscape]]. |- valign="top" | December 21, 1995 | First public release of the [[Ruby (programming language)|Ruby]] programming language (version 0.95) |- valign="top" | December 28, 1995 | CompuServe blocked access to over 200 sexually explicit [[Usenet]] newsgroups, partly to avoid confrontation with the German government. Access to all but five groups was restored on February 13, 1996. |}
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