IBM unveiled the PC-XT as an upgrade to the original IBM PC way back in 1983, bringing significant advancements to the industry. Its most notable feature was its built-in HDD, with a storage ...

Like the original IBM PC, it has hit a sweet spot, a Goldilocks balance between pricing and features that finally brings to Apple the final feather to crown the Mac Mini as the perfect PC ...

A cycle-accurate emulation of the original IBM PC is perhaps a bit overkill, unless of course you need to run something like Area 5150, a demo that stretches what’s possible with the original PC ...

Inherited from the original IBM PC, some early computer programs relied on this specific clock speed, and would otherwise run too fast (or not at all) on faster hardware. PC marketing teams and ...

AT-class machines ran DOS and were extremely sluggish under Windows. See 286. The original PC launched by IBM in 1981 used Intel's 16-bit 8088 CPU. This chip family was designed so that the ...

See Command key. On the original IBM PC in 1981, the Control key was placed left of the A key. In 1985, IBM swapped the location of the frequently used Control key with the rarely used Caps Lock ...

the IBM PC became the standard computer in large part due to its modular architecture with interchangeable components. Like the original IBM, now every PC's motherboard has slots in which any ...

The circuit board featured a "surprisingly complicated chip", more powerful than the CPU used in the original IBM PC. Foone concluded that digital tests were "probably not worth the money", given ...

In the early 1980s, Mark E. Dean served as chief engineer on the team behind the original IBM PC design, according to the University of Tennessee, where is an emeritus professor. He developed the ...

According to IBM, they are pioneering a new “quantum-centric supercomputing” approach to model complex chemical and biological processes that weren’t possible before. Previously, it was thought that ...