A PC that is compatible with the IBM PC and PS/2 standards; essentially, every Windows PC on the market. This term is rarely heard anymore, but it was widely used in the early days when PC vendors ...
When a Chinese manufacturer takes over IBM's PC business in 2004, this is also a signal of the shifting balance of power in ...
We’ve read a number of histories of the IBM PC and lived through that time, too. But we enjoyed [Gareth Edwards’] perspective in a post entitled The Misfit who Built the IBM PC. The titular ...
The Compaq Portable was one of the first fully IBM PC-compatible portable computer, a strategic move that had allowed Compaq to carve out a significant niche in the portable computing market.
IBM PC. The recent new Mac Mini announcement came as part of a bland, plain text Apple press release a few days ago, but I believe that it is a huge milestone for the Cupertino-based company ...
DOS, which then gave rise to Microsoft's Windows OS, refers to several closely related operating systems that dominated the IBM PC-compatible market between 1981 and 1995 as PCs (personal ...
A misguided reference to a PC. The term IBM compatible is more accurate, because IBM made the first PC. Even that has little meaning today, because Intel and Microsoft set the PC standards ...