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    An IBM PC compatible is any personal computer that is hardware- and software-compatible with the IBM Personal Computer (IBM PC) and its subsequent models...
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    family of disk-based operating systems for IBM PC compatible computers. The DOS family primarily consists of IBM PC DOS and a rebranded version, Microsoft's...
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    microcomputer released in the IBM PC model line and the basis for the IBM PC compatible de facto standard. Released on August 12, 1981, it was created by...
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    within just a few years. It led to a wave of IBM PC compatible systems being released. Before the IBM PC was introduced, the personal computer market was...
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  • computer in the 1980s, IBM and other vendors have created PC-based IBM mainframe-compatible systems which are compatible with the larger IBM mainframe computers...
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    established by IBM and adopted in the IBM PC compatible industry. Most major PC manufacturers balked at IBM's licensing terms for MCA-compatible hardware,...
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    ultimately unsuccessful in the market. It was only partially IBM PC compatible, limiting support for IBM's software library, its chiclet keyboard was widely criticized...
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  • manufacturers who made replacements for IBM peripherals. Later this term was used to refer to IBM-compatible computers. Before the rise of the PCM peripheral...
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  • created an IBM PC–compatible clone as part of a negotiation strategy of EDS with IBM. EDS intended to acquire PCs from IBM, but didn't like IBM's pricing...
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    before the IBM Personal Computer, and eight before the first successful IBM compatible portable computer, the Compaq Portable. It was the evolution of a prototype...
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    infrastructure as FICON. Hercules emulator IBM System/360 IBM System/370-XA IBM ESA/390 IBM System z PC-based IBM-compatible mainframes E.g., programs that depended...
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    that were not compatible with their counterparts in the IBM PC line. This meant that the vast library of software available for the IBM PC could not be...
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    The Compatible Time-Sharing System (CTSS) was the first general purpose time-sharing operating system. Compatible Time Sharing referred to time sharing...
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    to pull out of the IBM-compatible mainframe market, in order to focus on Unix. It transferred its Nixdorf 8890 line of clone IBM mainframes to Comparex...
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    standard, first introduced with the IBM PS/2 line of computers in 1987, which became ubiquitous in the IBM PC compatible industry within three years. The...
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    is IBM PC compatible, with the most significant difference being a move to the 80286 processor from the 8088 processor of prior models. Like the IBM PC...
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  • The Commodore PC compatible systems are a range of IBM PC compatible personal computers introduced in 1984 by home computer manufacturer Commodore Business...
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    introduction the 3270 and compatibles were by far the most commonly used terminals on IBM System/370 and successor systems. IBM and third-party software...
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  • significant use on IBM systems for many years. IBM System/360 ASSIST assembler PC-based IBM-compatible mainframes – list of compatible machines or virtual...
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    executing software contained in ROM (for example, the BIOS of an IBM PC or an IBM PC compatible) at a predefined address (some CPUs, including the Intel x86...
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    AT (form factor) (category IBM PC compatibles)
    era of IBM compatible personal computers, the AT form factor comprises the dimensions and layout (form factor) of the motherboard for the IBM AT. Baby...
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    Wintel (category IBM PC compatibles)
    IBM. Independent BIOS companies like Award, Chips and Technologies, and Phoenix began to market a clean room BIOS that was 100% compatible with IBM's...
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    standard in 1987. In addition to the original EGA card manufactured by IBM, many compatible third-party cards were manufactured, and EGA graphics modes continued...
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    Palmtop PC (category IBM PC compatibles)
    other palmtop computers by using a mostly IBM-compatible PC architecture, and BIOS as well as an Intel-compatible x86 processor. All such devices were DOS-based...
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    electroluminescent display and 384 kilobyte bubble memory. It was not IBM-compatible, and its high price (US$8,000–10,000, equivalent to $26,000-33,000 in...
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    operating system. In IBM PC compatible computers, the main duties of POST are handled by the BIOS or UEFI. In IBM PC compatible computers, the main duties...
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    Machines (IBM), released in 1994. Built on an x86 processor, the IBM Simon features a 4.5 inch resistive touchscreen display and runs an MS-DOS-compatible operating...
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    supplies. XTs with 240 V-compatible power supplies were later sold in international markets. Both were rated at 130 watts. IBM made several submodels of...
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    Extended Industry Standard Architecture (category IBM PC compatibles)
    for IBM PC compatible computers. It was announced in September 1988 by a consortium of PC clone vendors (the Gang of Nine) as an alternative to IBM's proprietary...
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    The Tandy 1000 was the first in a series of IBM PC compatible home computers produced by the Tandy Corporation, sold through its Radio Shack and Radio...
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