1978 Timeline

|  | Information Research Services | Updated: 20 August 1997

|  |  |  |  |  |  |  | February: V1.0 of the VMS operating system ships.
|  |  |  |  |  |  |  | March: DIGITAL ships the first DECsystem-2020.
|  |  |  |  |  |  |  | August: The VT100 terminal is introduced.
|  |  |  |  |  |  |  | September: Gordon Bell, Craig Mudge and John McNamara publish Computer Engineering: A DEC View of Hardware Systems Design.