The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018):
Texas Instruments(TI) A US electronics company. A TI engineer, Jack Kilby invented the integrated circuit in 1958. Three TI employees left the company in 1982 to start Compaq. The COOL and OATH C++ class libraries were developed at TI, as were PDL2 and the ASC computer, PC-Scheme and Texas Instruments Pascal. (ftp://ti.com/). (1994-09-26)