The Start of the PC Industry
Title: The Start of the PC Industry
Category: /Science & Technology/Computers and Cybernetics
Details: Words: 557 | Pages: 2 (approximately 235 words/page)
The Start of the PC Industry
Category: /Science & Technology/Computers and Cybernetics
Details: Words: 557 | Pages: 2 (approximately 235 words/page)
Module 1
Section 3
3.2<Tab/>Microsoft Sets the Trend
1.<Tab/>Gates and Allen took an existing product and adapted it to make it a Microsoft product. The same happened with DOS, and much of the Windows interface is borrowed from the Macintosh one.
2.<Tab/>BASIC was originally run on mainframes and through Gates's and Allen's efforts it could now be run on a microcomputer.
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…showed last 75 words of 557 total…amp;lt;Tab/>Apple I machines
2.<Tab/>Apple II machines: a computer which would feature color graphics, come pre-assembled and have more power than most existing microcomputers.
Some of the defining characteristics of the new PC companies:
*<Tab/>Very informal culture
*<Tab/>Young, talented employees
*<Tab/>Intellectual creativity
*<Tab/>Incredible success, incredibly quickly