IBM PC compatibles | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-01-18

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00:01:52 1 Origins
00:06:03 2 Compatibility issues
00:06:13 2.1 Non-compatible MS-DOS computers
00:14:27 2.2 "Operationally Compatible"
00:19:23 3 The decreasing influence of IBM
00:25:35 4 Expandability
00:27:11 5 "IBM PC compatible" becomes "Wintel"
00:29:09 6 Design limitations and more compatibility issues
00:33:50 7 Challenges to Wintel domination
00:38:20 8 The IBM PC compatible today
00:40:57 9 See also



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IBM PC compatible computers are computers  similar to the original IBM PC, XT, and AT, able to use the same software and expansion cards. Such computers used to be referred to as PC clones, or IBM clones. They duplicate almost exactly all the significant features of the PC architecture, facilitated by IBM's choice of commodity hardware components and various manufacturers' ability to reverse engineer the BIOS firmware using a "clean room design" technique. Columbia Data Products built the first clone of the IBM personal computer by a clean room implementation of its BIOS.Early IBM PC compatibles used the same computer bus as the original PC and AT models. The IBM AT compatible bus was later named the Industry Standard Architecture (ISA) bus by manufacturers of compatible computers. The term "IBM PC compatible" is now a historical description only, since IBM has ended its personal computer sales.
Descendants of the IBM PC compatibles comprise the majority of personal computers on the market presently with the dominant operating system being Microsoft Windows, although interoperability with the bus structure and peripherals of the original PC architecture may be limited or non-existent. Some computers ran MS-DOS but had enough hardware differences that IBM compatible software could not be used; examples include slight differences in the memory map, serial ports or video hardware. Only the Macintosh kept significant market share without compatibility with the IBM PC.