1990

N Vittal takes over from R Rajamani as the Secretary

of DoE. Coming from the department of Atomic Energy, the new DoE chief wants his department to prod

the Indian computer industry to greater hieghts of 



excellence.

Telecom Restructuring Committee was formed under

the Chairmanship of Dr MB Athreya. The committe’s recommendation that DoT be corporatized creates a controversy.

HCL out with 486 Desktop. The machine is based on AT bus and operates at 25MHz. 

DCM DP bags $11 m US order- one of the largest export order ever bagged by an Indian firm. 

India gets its first super computer. The Cray XMP-14 is installed at the Department of Meteorology. The sabre rattling by the US government spurred the Indian government to set up a Center for Advanced Computing.

SDRC sets up shop in India.

DoT takes over C-DOT.

IBM, Microsoft relaunch OS/2. 

Siemens takes over Nixdorf.

Intel enters workstation market.

AT&T develops Rapsody.

Windows 3.0 launched.

CSI completes 25 years.

Steel Authority of India goes for full automation.

Wipro brings SunSPARC Station I to Indian shores.

Intel enters workstations market.