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| | History of Microsoft Windows |
 | | The Windows API became the de-facto standard for consumer software. | | | It included new hardware drivers and the FAT32 file system to support disk partitions larger than the 2 GB allowed by Windows 95. | | | In 1999, Microsoft released Windows 98 Second Edition, whose most notable feature was the addition of Internet Connection Sharing (a brand name for a form of Network Address Translation), which allowed several machines on a LAN to share an internet connection. |
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http://www.sciencedaily.com/encyclopedia/history_of_microsoft_windows
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| | Vernon Frazee: IBM/PC ASCII Chart |
| | The next 128 characters (decimal 128-255), often referred to as "extended ASCII", "high-bit" or "high-order" characters, were defined by IBM and introduced with the release of their IBM/PC in 1981. | | | The first 128 ASCII characters (decimal 0-127) in the two charts (Decimal and Hexadecimal) below, often referred to as "7-bit" coded characters (8 including parity check), were defined by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) in document X3.9-1978. | | | Here are some brief descriptions for the abbreviations listed next to the first 32 control codes as well as for the SP next to character 32. |
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http://64.70.165.184/vfrazee/ascii.htm
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| | Computer Basics: IBM/PC |
| | Computer Basics: IBM/PC Computer Basics: IBM/PC 8 Things You Should Know Before You Get Started | | | Author: Doug Ens and Dave Sisk Editor: K. McDonnell. |
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http://www.ku.edu.tr/text/help/ibm_pc.html
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