John are probably be too young to recall the first Personal Computer was released in the form of PS2 - with advanced architecture called micro channel.
The because the standard that all clone PC's were designed around. In the early days Clone PC were always boasting as being 100% IBM computable. In those days all code was written to comply with an IBM PC and later with the clones becoming 100% computable. I those days we had PC DOS and there were separate versions for a 8088 and 8086 processor. MS-Dos became the most prolific version of DOS when the Microsoft made significant advertising showing that WINDOWS v2.X would only run IBM or PC DOS. Yes they sell PC's http://www-304.ibm.com/jct03004c/businesscenter/smallbusiness/us/en/product and I have worked in IBM ships were that hardware including the Mainframe was IBM - and IBM invented token ring Scott John Andersen wrote: > On Wednesday 13 June 2007, Registration Account wrote: >> I have >> never found 1 dell PC that comes close to being 100% >> IBM compatible - > > Not surprising, since IBM does not make PCs. >
smime.p7s
Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature