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• DECnet
  ...Ultrix]] variant of [[UNIX]], as well as [[Apple Macintosh]] computers and PCs running both DOS and Windows under the name '''DEC Pathworks''', transformi ...IGITAL published its first DNA specification at about the same time that [[IBM]] announced its [[Systems Network Architecture]] (SNA). Since that time, de
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• MS-DOS
  ...[[Microsoft]] for not only being the bundled [[operating system]] on the [[IBM-PC]] but also being available to the other clone [[OEM]]'s of the time. Microsoft had sold [[IBM]] on the idea of MS-DOS when talks for [[CP/M]] had broken down. At the tim
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• Gordon Letwin OS/2 usenet post
  IBM doomed OS/2 2.0, in terms of a successful desktop system, almost from that so many folks at IBM didn't. I speak here not of the faceless low
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• Windows NT 3.1 HCL
  IBM[R] Eduquest[TM] Model 50 486DX/33 (9605-040) IBM PC Server 486DX2/66 8640-0N*
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• Windows 2.0
  ...mory - while itself was limited to the real memory space. Needless to say IBM should have taken note, as this quasi-32bit shell suddenly could do somethi ...lable here [[Microsoft Windows-386 Being Delivered With Compaq 80386-Based PCs Through Dec. 31, 1987]]. NEC also released a 1987 version of Windows/386 i
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• Windows NT 3.5 HCL
  IBM[R] PC 300 Series Model 6571 486DX/33 IBM PC 300 Series Model 6575 Pentium/60
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• IBM pc memory map
  This is a simple memory map of an [[IBM-compatible PC|IBM PC]]. The video ROM/RAM areas are assumed to be [[VGA]]. [[Category: Compatible PCs]]
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• UAE
  ...rkbench [[diskette]], or some game. Note that neither [[Macintosh]] nor [[IBM PC]]s can read AmigaDOS floppies, so you will have to transfer them from an
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• IBM AT
  | name = IBM 5170/IBM AT | manufacturer = [[IBM]]
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• IBM PS/2
  ...nal Business Machines|IBM]], successors to the widly successful original [[IBM PC]]s. [[Image:IBM PS2 print ad.jpg|thumb|right|300px|The PS/2 print ad]]
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• Intel 80186
  ...ver this made the CPU incompatible with the 8086/8088 CPU setup found in [[IBM PC]]s. ...more compatible than the 80186 for the construction of [[IBM-compatible PC|PCs]]. It was more popular for [[embedded system]]s due to its on-board hardwar
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• IBM 5150
  | name = IBM 5150/IBM PC | image = IBM 5150.jpg
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• IBM-compatible PC
  ...all the [[software]] for the IBM Personal Computer'). IBM no longer makes PCs, but the terminology persists. ...se machines appeared, they rapidly drove out the other PC's which were not IBM-compatible, as the latter often required custom (and low-volume) versions o
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• IBM XT
  | name = IBM 5160/IBM XT | image = IBM 5160.jpg
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• IBM 386
  [[IBM]] never made an 'AT' compatible [[Intel 80386|386]] computer, but instead c ...86DX was a full 32bit chip, most of the early ones were saddled with the [[IBM AT]]'s 16-bit expansion [[bus]]. There were quite a few proprietary buses,
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• Floppy disk
  ...being used in [[Apple]], [[Atari]], [[Commodore]], and [[IBM-compatible PC|IBM compatible]] computers. Capacities ranged from 160KB up to 1.2MB for the hi The Sony variant of the 2" floppy, never actually used in PCs as far as we know, could store 812KB and transfer data at 14.3 Mbs, which w
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• Industry Standard Architecture
  ...the [[IBM PC]], [[IBM XT]], and the [[IBM AT]], and much copied on early [[IBM-compatible PC]]s. The 16-bit version used an extended [[backplane]] slot wi
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• Seagate ST1144A
  ...''' (sometimes referred to as a '''ST-1144A''') was a [[disk drive]] for [[IBM-compatible PC]]s from [[Seagate]]. The ST1057A, ST1102A and ST1144A use the industry-standard IBM
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• Inside OS/2
  described herein was hammered out by a joint Microsoft/ IBM design team: milieu of business and scientific computing. IBM's initial estimate of the
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• IBM PC
  ...es of [[personal computer]]s produced by [[International Business Machines|IBM]]. ...compatible PC]], which would run any and all [[software]] which ran on the IBM PC, by [[Compaq]].
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• Amstrad
  ...s sturdy metal case. Later series included i486 models, small form-factor PCs and even a model with a built in Sega Megadrive!
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• Basic Input/Output System
  The BIOS on the original [[IBM PC]] set the de facto standard for the [[interface]] to the BIOS, although [[Category: Compatible PCs]]
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• Extended Industry Standard Architecture
  ...it version of the [[Industry Standard Architecture]] bus common on early [[IBM-compatible PC]]s. It never caught on; the [[Peripheral Component Interconne
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• Peripheral Component Interconnect
  ...[[bus]] which replaced the [[Industry Standard Architecture|ISA]] bus on [[IBM-compatible PC]]s (and later other types of [[personal computer]]s). It was
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• Micro Channel architecture
  ...try Standard Architecture|ISA]] bus used on [[IBM PC]]s, and was used on [[IBM PS/2]]s. ...few non-IBM machines. It did not really catch on, however (in part due to IBM's licensing fees), and the main replacement for ISA turned out to be the [[
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• VGA
  ...Adaptor|CGA]] and [[Enhanced Graphics Adaptor|EGA]] introduced in earlier IBM personal computers. Through widespread adoption, the term has also come to ...phics hardware can be expected to implement. It was officially followed by IBM's [[Extended Graphics Array]] (XGA) standard, but was effectively supersede
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• Microsoft BASIC
  IBM licensed [[Microsoft]]'s [[BASIC]] for the [[IBM PC]] despite already having its own version for the company's mainframes. D == IBM Cassette BASIC ==
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• Empire
  ...moved from text based [[mini]]s ([[VMS]], [[BSD]]), to [[personal computer|PCs]] ([[MS-DOS]], [[Windows]], [[Mac]]), and to modern [[GUI]], and on to [[sm | platform = [[VMS]] [[IBM-compatible PC]]
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• 3Com 3C501
  ...net]] interface [[printed circuit board|card]] for early [[IBM PC]]s and [[IBM-compatible PC]]s.
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• PC-DOS
  IBM PC-DOS is the OEM of Microsoft's [[MS-DOS]] for the [[IBM PC Model 5150]] and its successors. The history of how PC-DOS came to be t ...splays on boot as The IBM Personal Computer DOS Version 1.00 (C) Copyright IBM Corp 1981. Unlike the 1.00 release it does not ask for the date and this is
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• Parallel interface
  ...nterface) to another. For many years, [[personal computer]]s (especially [[IBM-compatible PC]]s) did include standardized parallel ports; they were most c
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• Tandy 1000 S-Series
  | form factor = [[Compatible PCs]] | form factor = [[Compatible PCs]]
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• Datapoint
  ...compatible PC]], which killed off all company-specific designs, and turned PCs into a commodity business.
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• List of emulators
  ==[[IBM-compatible PC]]s== ==[[International Business Machines|IBM]]==
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