SoCultures October 2018
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<strong>SoCultures</strong> <strong>October</strong> <strong>2018</strong><br />
circumstances as well as the new arising opportunities in a growing developing<br />
economy of a free India.<br />
Soon, the resilient and resolute Shiv Nadar had acquired his graduation degree. He<br />
had started envisioning the future not only for himself but also for his counterparts<br />
as well. He arrived in Chennai, all of 21.<br />
A visionary who dreamt of changing the world: It was 1976, when talented<br />
eight young men left DCM to create HCL in a small room (much akin to a start up<br />
scene in India now) in Delhi to make calculators and microprocessors. The initial<br />
setup was in a small room but the vision was huge, it took over the world by<br />
storm..It compelled and influenced the ways, the world functioned. HCL proved to<br />
be a revolutionary invention - the first 8-bit microprocessor-based computer in<br />
1978, the first Relational Database Management System in 1983 before some of its<br />
global peers, client- server architecture in 1984, and world’s first fine-grained<br />
multi-processor UNIX installation in 1989, among others.<br />
Shri Manmohan Singh, previous prime minister of India was presented with a memento by the<br />
Chairman,IIT Kharagpur and Shri Shiv Nadar at the Diamond Jublee Celebrations at the 57 th Annual<br />
celebrations of IIT, Kharagpur, India<br />
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