Happy 60th Birthday IBM Research

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Wednesday October 12, 2005 @01:41AM from the everybody-likes-fractals dept.

HockeyPuck writes "On Tuesday, IBM Research celebrated it's 60th Birthday "IBM inventions and discoveries include the programming language Fortran (1957), magnetic storage (1955), the relational database (1970), DRAM (dynamic random access memory) cells (1962), the RISC (reduced instruction set computer) chip architecture (1980), fractals (1967), superconductivity (1987) and the Data Encryption Standard (1974). In the last 12 years, IBM has received 29,021 patents--more than any other company or individual in the world.""

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And in the same time... by Dam's · 2005-10-12 01:55 · Score: 0, Offtopic

... microsoft invented... ?

euh, do they have a major -not ripped from someone else- invention or patent ?

(no, the isNot patent doesn't count)
Troll? Mods, it's called a JOKE. by SuperBanana · 2005-10-12 02:13 · Score: 0, Offtopic

What is with people and the itchy "troll" triggerfingers? Call me crazy, but I haven't modded a post "troll" in years.

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