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- The concept of an '''IBM compatible PC''' reaches back to 1981, to a radical decision made by IBM when it introduc </ref> , was the first non-IBM company to succeed in creating a completely IBM compatible PC.2 KB (279 words) - 14:38, 7 July 2009
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- The concept of an '''IBM compatible PC''' reaches back to 1981, to a radical decision made by IBM when it introduc </ref> , was the first non-IBM company to succeed in creating a completely IBM compatible PC.2 KB (279 words) - 14:38, 7 July 2009
- ...ull 16-bit bus in the 8086) was used in the very first incarnation of an [[IBM compatible PC]], the [[IBM PC 5150]] in 1981. The term "x86" is also used colloquially to ...ue to a remarkable decision, made jointly by the designers of the original IBM compatible PC. They decided to maintain backward compatibility in both software and hard4 KB (561 words) - 14:55, 7 July 2009
- {{r|IBM compatible PC}}576 bytes (76 words) - 11:34, 11 January 2010
- {{r|IBM compatible PC}}1 KB (150 words) - 19:28, 11 January 2010
- Auto-populated based on [[Special:WhatLinksHere/IBM compatible PC]]. Needs checking by a human.695 bytes (94 words) - 13:35, 29 April 2011
- ..., first ''monolithic'', UNIX-like operating system which could run on an [[IBM compatible PC]]2 KB (232 words) - 18:13, 8 November 2008
- {{r|IBM compatible PC}}3 KB (353 words) - 03:48, 24 September 2013
- * [[hardware abstraction]]: the [[BIOS]] does this in an [[IBM compatible PC]]; the measure of success for a hardware abstraction can be seen in part by3 KB (490 words) - 10:26, 30 March 2024
- ...ed to manufacturing "clones." Clones (more technically [[IBM_compatible_PC|IBM compatible PC]]s) were capable of running the same [[Disk Operating System]] as the origi ...plugs into the motherboard using one of many different types of sockets. [[IBM compatible PC]] computers use an [[x86]]-compatible processor. [[Intel]] makes most of t15 KB (2,382 words) - 08:45, 22 April 2024
- {{r|IBM compatible PC}}3 KB (441 words) - 12:55, 13 November 2014
- ...is testing its own components before being ready to execute software; on [[IBM compatible PC|IBM compatible PCs]], this phase is called POST (Power On Self Test). After16 KB (2,593 words) - 09:55, 19 August 2014
- ...ts, notably some of the open specifications leading to the industry-wide [[IBM compatible PC]] beginning in the early 1980's.5 KB (796 words) - 14:09, 8 December 2022
- ...r architecture]]s. For example, the Intel [[x86]] architecture used for [[IBM compatible PC]]s is little endian, whereas [[SPARC]] (Solaris) architectures are big endi13 KB (2,022 words) - 22:48, 15 September 2013
- ...rticipants, notably the open specifications leading to the industry-wide [[IBM compatible PC]] beginning in the early 1980's.9 KB (1,333 words) - 10:08, 28 February 2024
- ...big three" (Apple, Commodore and Tandy-Radio Shack) duke it out with the [[IBM compatible PC]] and [[Microsoft MS-DOS]]26 KB (3,913 words) - 06:51, 7 April 2014