Software · 1990s

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Multimedia & Audio · 1991

Pro Tools

A digital audio workstation for recording, editing and mixing music and sound, with a development history closely linked to professional audio hardware and post-production.

Windows,macOS

Multimedia & Audio · 1993

Sibelius

Music-notation software for entering, editing and publishing scores, combining automatic engraving assistance, playback and tools for preparing performers' parts.

Windows,macOS

Operating Systems · 1992

Solaris

Sun Microsystems' enterprise Unix platform, associated with SPARC workstations and servers and with technologies including DTrace, ZFS and operating-system virtualization.

x86,x86-64,SPARC

Developer Tools · 1991

Vim

A modal editor descended from vi, combining keyboard-driven text manipulation with scripting, language support and availability across terminal and graphical environments.

Windows,Linux,macOS,Unix

Multimedia & Audio · 1997

Winamp

A customizable music player associated with MP3 collections, playlists, skins and visualization plugins during the growth of computer-based listening.

Windows,macOS,Android

System Utilities · 1995

WinRAR

A Windows archiver associated with the RAR format, providing compression, extraction, multipart archives and recovery-related features for file distribution and storage.

Windows,Linux,macOS,Android

System Utilities · 1991

WinZip

A Windows file-archiving application that made ZIP compression and extraction accessible through a graphical interface, later expanding into additional file-management workflows.

Windows,macOS,Android,iOS