Labels:book | chat room | crt screen | hakham | monitor | plant | sky OCR: MPUTER YSTEM Microco m putel Co m ipatibility Can all computers use the same software? Hundreds companies manufacture micro computers but t there are a small number of microcomputer designs or platforms Today there are two microcomputer platforms. popularly called PCs and Macs PCs are based on the architecture t0 the first IBM microcomputers. PCs are manuf factured Aq I8M. Compaq Dell, Gateway. and hundreds of other companies. Macs are based uo the Macintosh computer, manufactured by Apple Computer, Inc. Because about 80% of the microcomputers s in use today are PCs the examples n this book focus on the PC platform. Computers that operate in essentially the same are said to be compatible Two com puters are compatible if they can share the same software and use the same peripheral devices N ...
