Since we published our first Editors' Choice Awards in 1989, we've given over 200 awards. Sometimes our aim is true to the mark -- we were among the first to give an award to the VBX, for example -- and sometimes our crystal ball becomes clouded (whatever did happen to WingZ?). But of the products we've given kudos, some have truly stood the test of time. These are the recipients of the BYTE Hall of Fame awards.
Ado
be Illustrator
Where would the graphics arts community be without this
war-horse drawing
program? The recipient of many readers' choice awards and editors' choice awards over the years, Illustrator is still the de facto standard for drawing. Adobe Systems, San Jose, California; 408-536-6000.
http://www.adobe.com
Novell NetWare 3.x
Devoid of a fancy graphical user interface, NetWare 3.x nonetheless became the standard for file and print services. Why? It's fast, well understood, and very reliable. Beyond that, it was the first version of NetWare to support a standard method for extensibility: the NetWare loadable module (NLM), which enabled a new category of server -- the application server. Novell, Provo, UT; 801-429-5508.
http://www.novell.com
World Wide Web
Tim Berners-Lee probably never thought that people would be talking about the Web as the next television. But this hyperlink-based medium for sharing information, built around the relatively simple standards of HTTP and HTML, has become the way to compute in the 1990s. And the future looks even better, with new protocols and technologies promising to enable yet more types of applications. World Wide Web Consortium.
http://www.w3.org
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