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*’IBM PC compatible’ computers are computers’ similar to the original [‘IBM’ / ‘PC’ / ‘XT’ / ‘AT’]*
(able to use the same ‘software’ + ‘expansion cards’)
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(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 ‘inter-operability’ 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’)
(in better news, i’m starting to trust ‘computers’)
(as is, i’m more comfortable sending a file via an ‘internet uploader’ than via ‘flash drive’ via ‘US mail’)
even if said uploader has its limitations…
these limitations will all be corrected in the future…
(we’re in a ‘perpetual state of beta’ for now, but the alpha age is slowly and surely coming upon us…)
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(a personal computer (PC) is a ‘general-purpose computer’ whose ‘size’, ‘capabilities’, and ‘price’ make it feasible for ‘individual use’)
(‘PCs’ are intended to be operated directly by an ‘end-user’ with only a ‘general knowledge’ of ‘computers’, rather than by a ‘computer expert’ or ‘technician’)
(“computers were invented to ‘compute’)
(that is, “to solve complex mathematical problems”)
(but today, due to ‘media dependency’ and the ‘everyday use’ of ‘computers’, actual ‘computation’ is the ‘least important’ thing computers do”)
(according to…?)
(the ‘computer time-sharing models’ that were typically used with ‘larger’ (+ ‘more expensive’) ‘minicomputer’ and ‘mainframe’ systems, to enable them be used by many people at the same time, are not used with ‘PCs’)
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(a range of ‘software applications’ (aka “programs”) are available for ‘personal computers’ including, but are not limited to…)
‘word processing’
‘spreadsheets’
‘databases’
‘web browsers’ + ‘e-mail’
‘digital media playback’
‘video games’
(many ‘personal productivity/ and ‘special-purpose’ software applications)
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(in the ‘2010s’, ‘PCs’ are typically connected to the ‘internet’, allowing access to the ‘world wide web’ and other resources)
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(‘personal computers’ may be connected to a ‘local area network’ (‘LAN’), either by a ‘cable’ or a ‘wireless connection’)
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(in the 2010s, a ‘PC’ may be…)
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a ‘multi-component desktop computer’
(designed for use in a ‘fixed location’)
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a ‘laptop computer’
(designed for ‘easy portability’)
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3 –
(a ‘tablet computer’)
(designed to be ‘hand-held’)
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(in the 2010s, ‘PCs’ run using an ‘operating system’ (‘OS’) (such as ‘microsoft windows 10” / ‘linux’ / and the various operating systems based on it), or ‘macintosh (OSX))
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(early computer owners in the 1960s had to write their own programs to do any useful calculations with the machines, which even did not include an ‘operating system’)
(the very earliest ‘micro-computers’, equipped with a ‘front panel’, required hand-loading of a “bootstrap” program to load programs from ‘external storage’)
(paper tape (“punched tape”) / ‘tape cassettes’ / and eventually ‘diskettes’)
(before long, ‘automatic booting’ from ‘permanent read-only memory’ (aka ‘ROM’) became ‘universal’)
(in the ‘2010s’, users have access to a wide range of commercial software, free software (“freeware”) and ‘free’ and ‘open-source’ software, which are provided in ‘ready-to-run’ or ‘ready-to-compile’ form)
(‘software’ for ‘personal computers’, such as ‘applications’ (aka “apps”) and ‘video games’, are typically ‘developed’ and ‘distributed’ independently from the ‘hardware’ or ‘OS’ manufacturers, whereas ‘software’ for many ‘mobile phones’ and other ‘portable systems’ is ‘approved’ and ‘distributed’ through a ‘centralized online store’)
(since the ‘early 1990s’, ‘microsoft operating systems’ and ‘intel hardware’ dominated much of the ‘personal computer market’, first with ‘MS-DOS’ and then with ‘windows’)
Popular alternatives to Microsoft’s Windows operating systems include Apple’s OS X and free open-source Unix-like operating systems such as Linux and BSD.
AMD provides the major alternative to Intel’s processors. ARM architecture processors “sold 15 billion microchips in 2015, which was more than US rival Intel had sold in its history” and ARM-based smartphones and tablets, those are also effectively personal computers – though not usually described as such – now outnumber traditional PCs (that are by now predominantly Intel-based while a small minority is AMD-base)
(the time for dividing computers into “PCs” and “macs” is over)
(with more and more people using ‘mobile devices’ like ‘smartphones’ and ‘tablets’, ‘macOS X’ is just another ‘PC operating system’ alongside ‘windows’ and ‘linux’)
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in better news, i’m starting to trust computers.
as in, i’m more comfortable sending a file via an internet uploader than via flash drive via US Mail.
even if said uploader has its limitations.
these limitations will all be corrected in the future.
we’re in a perpetual state of beta for now,
but the alpha age is slowly and surely coming upon us…
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*SUMMER 2005*
(my 21st birthday gift was a dell desktop)
it ended up costing $3K
(because i selected all the optimal upgrades like the perfectionist i am…)
i was too cowardly to make the leap to apple then…
(“ma mama told me that theeze pee seize were better…”)
(though she is clueless when it comes to computers)
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(COLLEGE DELL LAPTOP)
(FALL 2002 – SUMMER 2005)
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(FAMILY COMPUTER)
(GATEWAY 2000)
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👈👈👈☜*“COMPUTER MANUFACTURERS”* ☞ 👉👉👉
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*🌈✨ *TABLE OF CONTENTS* ✨🌷*
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🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥*we won the war* 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥