Editing Timeline of computing 1990–1999 (section)

==1992==
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| 1992
| First 64-bit [[microprocessor]]s; the first 64-bit variant of [[MIPS architecture|MIPS]], the [[R4000|MIPS R4000]] was introduced in 1992 (announced October 1, 1991) and another major RISC microprocessor, [[DEC Alpha]] (no longer produced), was also introduced in 1992. Intel had introduced the [[Intel i860]] RISC microprocessor in 1989, marketed as a "64-bit microprocessor", while it had essentially a 32-bit architecture (non-pure "32/64-bit"), enhanced with a 3D graphics unit capable of 64-bit. Computers with 64-bit registers (but not addressing, and not microprocessors) had appeared decades earlier, as far back as [[IBM 7030 Stretch]] (considered a failure) in 1962, and in the [[Cray-1]] supercomputer installed at [[Los Alamos National Laboratory]] in 1976.
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| 1992
| {{Blockquote|Windows NT addresses 2 gigabytes of RAM which is more than any application will ever need|Microsoft on the development of Windows NT.{{Citation needed|reason=This sounds like an urban legend more than an actual quote. There were already supercomputing applications using far more than 2 GiB of RAM in 1992.|date=July 2018}}{{context needed|date=June 2021}}}} 
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| ?
| Introduction of [[CD-i]] launched by [[Philips]].<ref name="philipscdi.com">{{Cite web |title=Philipscdi.com :: History |url=https://www.philipscdi.com/history.htm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230730050356/https://www.philipscdi.com/history.htm |archive-date=July 30, 2023 |access-date=2022-08-08 |website=www.philipscdi.com}}</ref>
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| 1992
| The [[PowerPC 600#PowerPC 601|PowerPC 601]], developed by IBM, Motorola and Apple Computer, was released. This was the first generation of [[PowerPC]] processors.
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|1992
|The last "[[luggable]]" computer of the [[Compaq Portable series]], the [[Compaq Portable 486]], was released.
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| 1992
| IBM [[ThinkPad]] 700C laptop created. It was lightweight compared to its predecessors.<ref name="null2007" />
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| March
| First release of [[386BSD]]: the first fully operational Unix operating system to be completely free and open source, and to be able to ran on PC-compatible computer systems based on the [[32-bit]] [[Intel 80386]] ("i386").
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| April
| Introduction of [[Windows 3.1]]<ref>{{cite book|last1=Bajpai|first1=S. K.|title=Introduction To Computers And C Programming|date=2007|publisher=New Age International|isbn=9788122413793|page=96|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4hpKj29LPuAC&pg=PA96|language=en}}</ref>
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| May
|''[[Wolfenstein 3D]]'' released by [[id Software]]<ref>{{cite book|last1=Sanglard|first1=Fabien|title=Game Engine Black Book: Wolfenstein 3D|date=2017|publisher=Sanglard Publishing|page=71|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Lq4yDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA71|language=en}}</ref>
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| June
|[[Sound Blaster 16]] ASP introduced by [[Creative Labs]].
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| October
| [[Commodore International]] releases the [[Amiga 1200]] and [[Amiga 4000]]. Both machines included the improved [[Advanced Graphics Architecture]] chipset. The 1200 had a 14&nbsp;MHz 68020 processor; the 4000 had a 25&nbsp;MHz 68040.
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| November 10
|[[Digital Equipment Corporation]] introduces the [[DEC Alpha|Alpha AXP]] architecture and the Alpha-based [[DEC 3000 AXP]] workstations, [[DEC 4000 AXP]] departmental servers and the [[DEC 7000/10000 AXP|DEC 7000 AXP]] enterprise servers.
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