• The Mac IIfx is released and for two years remains the fastest computer in Apple’s product range. I loved my IIfx which cost the company a measly 10000$, excluding monitor. The computer can make use of System 7, a major rewrite of Apple’s operating system.

• Microsoft introduces Windows 3.0, the first ‘usable’ version of its operating and a huge commercial success. In its first year, 1 million copies are sold.
• Illustrator 3 ships for Macintosh as well as Next and Unix systems. Adobe consider their work ‘done’ as far as PostScript based illustration software goes and don’t do any upgrades until version 5 in 1993. From then on, yearly upgrades keep the stockholders happy.

• Linotype merges with Hell to become Linotype-Hell AG. The company is the first to ship a screening algorithm that gets rid of the moire effects that plague classic PostScript screening. Their technology is called HQS Screening and it is based on the Adobe Accurate Screening algorithm that will ship with PostScript level 2. The Agfa alternative is called Agfa Balanced Screening.

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