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What happened in history on this day: August 23?
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Personal Computer history:
- 1995 - Quote by comedian Jay Leno about computers, at a rehersal for the Windows 95 launch: "I came illiterate, now I'm leaving virtually retarded.".
- 2000 - Intel announces the XScale processor for future handheld computers, and demonstrates a processor running at 1 GHz.
- 2002 - Apple Computer launches Mac OS X 10.2 operating system. New features include instant-messaging client iChat, and handwriting recognition technology Inkwell. Price is US$129 for single user, or US$199 for a five-user package. Code-name during development was Jaguar. For the first time since the original Macintosh launch in January 1984, the "Happy Mac" icon is not part of the start-up sequence. It has been replaced by a silver-gray Apple icon.
Video Game history:
- 1991 - Hudson releases the 1941 video game for the PC Engine in Japan.
- 1993 - Nintendo and Silicon Graphics announce a collaboration on a new video game system, to use the 64-bit MIPS R4000 processor. The new system is code-named Project Reality.
- 1999 - Sony drops the price of the PlayStation in the USA from US$129 to US$99.
- 2002 - Capcom releases the Onimusha 2: Samurai's Destiny video game for the PlayStation 2 in the US.
- 2005 - Nintendo releases the Advance Wars: Dual Strike video game for the Nintendo DS in the US.
- 2005 - Sierra releases The Incredible Hulk: Ultimate Destruction video game for the PlayStation 2, Xbox, and GameCube in the US.
- 2011 - Square Enix releases the Deus Ex: Human Revolution video game for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 in the US.
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