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What happened in history on this day: December 4?
On December 4 in ...
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Personal Computer history:
- 1987 - IBM ships first copies of OS/2 Standard Edition 1.0.
- 1992 - Apple executive staff approves proceeding with porting the Mac OS to operate natively on Intel processors.
- 1995 - IBM licenses Java from Sun Microsystems for use in hardware and software.
- 1996 - At the Handheld PDA Expo in San Mateo, California, Microsoft announces that the Windows CE operating system will support Motorola MPC 821 and 823 PowerPC processors, and ARM processors from Digital Equipment and Cirrus Logic.
Video Game history:
- 1995 - At the Personal Computer Outlook conference in California, Apple Computer shows the Pippin multimedia device. Bandai has a license to make and sell the systems, initially in Japan.
- 1995 - Nintendo releases the Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest video game for the Super NES game system in the USA.
- 1996 - Shares of GT Interactive Software drop 37.6 percent in Nasdaq trading, after the company reported that its games for the Nintendo 64 would be delayed.
- 2003 - In Japan, Sony releases the Gran Turismo 4: Prologue Version video game for the PlayStation 2. The game includes about fifty cars and five race courses. Price is 2980 yen (about US$25).
- 2003 - Nintendo releases the 1080: Avalanche video game for the GameCube in the US.
- 2011 - Nintendo releases the Mario Kart 7 video game for the Nintendo 3DS in the US.
- 2012 - Ubisoft releases the Far Cry 3 video game for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.
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