1130b656e5
This will make a number of things easier in the future, as well as (finally!) avoiding the Id-smashing problem which has plagued developers for so long. Boy, I'm glad we're not using sup anymore. This update would have been insane otherwise.
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74 lines
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/*
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* Computer
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*
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* $FreeBSD$
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*/
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#ifndef _calendar_computer_
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#define _calendar_computer_
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01/01 AT&T officially divests its local Bell companies, 1984
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01/01 The Epoch (Time 0 for UNIX systems, Midnight GMT, 1970)
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01/03 Apple Computer founded, 1977
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01/08 American Telephone and Telegraph loses antitrust case, 1982
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01/08 Herman Hollerith patents first data processing computer, 1889
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01/08 Justice Dept. drops IBM suit, 1982
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01/10 First CDC 1604 delivered to Navy, 1960
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01/16 Set uid bit patent issued, to Dennis Ritchie, 1979
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01/17 Justice Dept. begins IBM anti-trust suit, 1969 (drops it, 01/08/82)
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01/24 DG Nova introduced, 1969
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01/25 First U.S. meeting of ALGOL definition committee, 1958
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01/26 EDVAC demonstrated, 1952
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01/31 Hewlett-Packard founded, 1939
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02/11 Last day of JOSS service at RAND Corp., 1966
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02/14 First micro-on-a-chip patented (TI), 1978
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02/15 ENIAC demonstrated, 1946
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03/01 First NPL (later PL/I) report published, 1964
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03/04 First Cray-1 shipped to Los Alamos
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03/09 "GOTO considered harmful" (E.J. Dikstra) published in CACM, 1968
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03/14 LISP introduced, 1960
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03/28 DEC announces PDP-11, 1970
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03/31 Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corp. founded, Phila, 1946
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04/01 Yourdon, Inc. founded, 1974 (It figures.)
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04/03 IBM 701 introduced, 1953
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04/04 Tandy Corp. acquires Radio Shack, 1963 (9 stores)
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04/07 IBM announces System/360, 1964
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04/09 ENIAC Project begun, 1943
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04/28 Zilog Z-80 introduced
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05/06 EDSAC demonstrated, 1949
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05/01 First BASIC program run at Dartmouth, 1964
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05/16 First report on SNOBOL distributed (within BTL), 1963
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05/21 DEC announces PDP-8
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05/22 Ethernet first described, 1973
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05/27 First joint meeting of U.S. and European ALGOL definition cte., 1958
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05/28 First meeting of COBOL definition cte. (eventually CODASYL), 1959
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05/30 Colossus Mark II, 1944
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06/02 First issue of Computerworld, 1967
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06/10 First Apple II shipped, 1977
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06/15 UNIVAC I delivered to the Census Bureau, 1951
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06/16 First programming error at Census Bureau, 1951 (apocryphal)
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06/23 IBM unbundles software, 1969
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06/23 Turing's Birthday, 1912
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06/30 First advanced degree on computer related topic: to H. Karamanian,
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Temple Univ., Phila, 1948, for symbolic diffentiation on the ENIAC
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07/08 Bell Telephone Co. formed (predecessor of AT&T), 1877
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07/08 CDC incorporated, 1957
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08/14 First Unix-based mallet created, 1954
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08/14 IBM PC announced, 1981
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08/22 CDC 6600 introduced, 1963
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08/23 DEC founded, 1957
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09/15 ACM founded, 1947
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09/20 Harlan Herrick runs first FORTRAN program, 1954
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10/02 First robotics-based CAM, 1939
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10/06 First GPSS manual published, 1961
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10/08 First VisiCalc prototype, 1978
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10/12 Univac gives contract for SIMULA compiler to Nygaard and Dahl, 1962
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10/14 British Computer Society founded, 1957
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10/15 First FORTRAN Programmer's Reference Manual published
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10/20 Zurich ALGOL report published, 1958
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10/25 DEC announces VAX-11/780
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11/04 UNIVAC I program predicts Eisenhower victory based on 7% of votes, 1952
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12/08 First Ph.D. awarded by Computer Science Dept, Univ. of Penna, 1965
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#endif /* !_calendar_computer_ */
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