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What does it mean for a computer to be an "IBM Compatible PC"?

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Mar 15, 20265792 views
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A couple questions about this: 1) Is this term even relevant any more? 2) Does this mean anything from a developer's stand point? It is not exactly clear to me if this is a BIOS, architecture, bus or a combination. A piece of software I'm working on expects to see a "Description" of the system and …

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1) Is this term even relevant any more? Not really. In the early days of home/personal computing, there were several computing platforms using various microprocessors. Hardware and software were typically incompatible between these platforms. As HW …

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