Influence of the IBM-PC on the Personal Computer Market
Frederic P. Miller, Agnes F. Vandome, John McBrewster
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The IBM-PC drove many other Personal Computer architectures into extinction in just a few years. The market before the IBM PC was dominated by systems using the 6502 or Z80 microprocessors, and CP/M or proprietary operating systems. Around 1978 Several 16-bit CPU's became available. The Mn601, Fairchild's 9440, the Ferranti F100-1, the General Instrument CP1600,CP1610, the National Semiconductor INS8900, Panafacom's MN1610, TI's TMS9900 and of course the Intel 8086, but they were not only expensive, but also expensive to use, as they used a 16-bit data bus and thus needed (rare and thus expensive) 16-bit peripheral and support chips too. That changed when the Intel 8088 came on the market in...
ISBN: 978-6-1317-7107-1
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Дата выхода: июль 2011