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IBM PC Last modified: Friday, November 08, 1996

Refers to a family of personal computers produced by IBM. The term can also refer to computers that conform to set of loosely controlled standards. These are also called IBM clones , IBM compatibles , or simply compatibles. These terms are actually misnomers because many of the PCs produced by IBM do not conform to industry standards. For example, IBM attempted to change the expansion bus to MCA in its PS/2 line of PCs, but the industry did not follow suit.

IBM PC Family Page IBM's page for their Personal Computer 300 and Aptiva product families. Yahoo!'s IBM compatible programming languages page Yahoo!'s directory of IBM compatible programming languages. Yahoo!'s IBM compatibles page Yahoo!'s directory of IBM compatibles. The ChipList This is The ChipList, by Aad Offerman, which answers questions about the differences between chips that are available for PC's and compatibles.