How it started
ASMDEMO
Aida started in 1995 with the freeware ASMDEMO, a 16 bit DOS hardware analyser software with basic capabilities. The first public release was ASMDEMO v870, provided with CPU and disk benchmarks.
AIDA
Then, in 2000, AIDA 1.0 was released provided with a hardware database with 12,000 entries, support for 32-bit MMX and SSE benchmarks. It has been written by Tamás Miklós.
AIDA32
In 2001 is released AIDA32 1.0, a 32-bit Windows system diagnostic tool with basic capabilities.
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