1980 in science

Astronomy and space exploration

  • November 12th - Program To travel: The space probe of NASA Voyager 1 is to have been machine nearest to Saturn. It sends images of planet and its satellites.
  • the second launching of a Fusée ARIANE 1 shows a failure due to the faulty operation of the first stage.

  • the American scientists Shine Walter Alvarez and his/her Walter son proposes a theory catastrophist of the disappearance of the dinosaurs by the meeting of the ground with a giant asteroid, following the discovery of the Cratère of Chicxulub, in the north of the Péninsule of Yucatán.

Biology

  • (unknown date) - UCB becomes the first company of biotechnology to the the United Kingdom.
  • June: First Australian Baby test-tube.

Data processing

  • IBM sign a contract with Microsoft to equip its “personal computers” (PC) with an effective operating system, the MS-DOS, derived from UNIX. Other companies, like Compaq or Commodore, propose compatible clones as of 1981, except Apple, where Steve Jobs does not aim at selling less expensive material but of better software.

  • Appearance of Internet, when all the American and foreign networks adopt the protocol TCP/IP. Less than two hundred “hosts” are then connected (1000 in 1984).

  • Evolution accelerated of data processing in France: office automation is essential on SICOB (Data-processing Living room, Télématique, Communication, Bureautique) with Paris.

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