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AST Research, Inc. was a personal computer manufacturer, founded in Irvine, California in 1980. AST's original business was the manufacture and marketing of a broad range of microcomputer expansion cards, later focusing on higher-density replacements for IBM's standard I/O cards in the IBM PC. A typical AST card of the mid-1980s would have two RS-232 serial ports, a parallel printer port, a battery-backed clock/calendar (the original IBM PC did not have one), perhaps a bus mouse port, and 384 KB of DRAM (added to the 256 KB on the motherboard to reach the full complement of 640 KB). Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with AST Research, Inc. ... Image File history File links AST_logotype. ... Nickname: Motto: Official website: http://www. ... Official language(s) English Capital Sacramento Largest city Los Angeles Area  - Total  - Width  - Length  - % water  - Latitude  - Longitude Ranked 3rd 410,000 km² 402. ... 1980 (MCMLXXX) was a leap year starting on Tuesday. ... International Business Machines Corporation (IBM, or colloquially, Big Blue) NYSE: IBM (incorporated June 15, 1911, in operation since 1888) is headquartered in Armonk, NY, USA. The company manufactures and sells computer hardware, software, infrastructure services and consulting services. ... IBM PC (IBM 5150) with keyboard and green screen monochrome monitor (IBM 5151), running MS-DOS 5. ... RS-232 (also referred to as EIA RS-232C or V.24) is a standard for serial binary data interchange between a DTE (Data terminal equipment) and a DCE (Data communication equipment). ... A bus mouse is a variety of PC mouse which is attached to the computer using a specialized interface (originally, the Microsoft InPort interface developed for Microsofts original mouse product). ... Dram can mean several things: for the imperial unit of volume see dram (volume) for the imperial unit of weight or mass see avoirdupois and apothecaries system of mass for the Armenian monetary unit see dram (currency) DRAM is a type of RAM and unlike dram is spelled in all...

As PC manufacturers improved the integration of peripheral controllers on their motherboards, AST's original business began to dry up, and the company developed its own line of PCs, for the desktop, mobile, and server markets. The company was named after the first initials of its founders, Albert Wong, Safi Qureshey and Thomas Yuen. One of the first PCs from IBM - the IBM PC model 5150. ... An old Octek Jaguar V main board with an AMD 386DX-40 processor. ... A desktop is the horizontal surface of a desk. ... Mobile has several different meanings. ... In computing, a server is a software application that carries out some task (i. ... Mr Safi Qureshey, Co-founder and former CEO of AST Research, who also serves as Pakistan’s Honorary Investment Counselor in Los Angeles, is on Governor-elect Schwarzenegger’s transition team. ... Found the other I.T. company SRS Labs Inc. ...

AST Research was acquired by Samsung on August 11, 1997. In January 1999, the name and intellectual property were acquired by a new company named AST Computers, LLC. Samsung Group is one of the largest South Korean business groupings. ... 1999 is a common year starting on Friday Anno Domini (or the Current Era), and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ... Intellectual property, or IP, refers to a legal entitlement which sometimes attaches to the expressed form of an idea, or to some other intangible subject matter. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with AST Research, Inc. ...