The nineties of the last century
by admin on Mar.11, 2010, under Uncategorized
The nineties of the last century
1990 – beginning of a completely new dimension to the history of the design of mobile computers. It was then that was introduced by Intel’s first microprocessor designed specifically for the construction of such systems. Intel 80386 SL contains architectural solution for power management, and marked the birth of the concept of software compatibility, is still the hallmark of products from Intel. Thanks to advances in miniaturization of electronic components and batteries, laptops that time became less like bags and cases.
Most laptops built on Intel-based 80386 SL, weighed about three kilograms, equipped with a passive LCD displays capable of displaying 16 shades of gray have one megabyte of RAM and running the operating system MS-DOS version 5.0. In addition, the speed of such a PC allowed them to run on Microsoft Windows version 3.0.