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The IBM PC (personal computer), and its many clones, have totally dominated the world of personal computing through the 1980s and 1990s. Most commercial and industrial organisations depend on them, and many millions of people throughout the world rely on them for home computing (word processing, spreadsheets, etc.).

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© 1995 R. C. Holland

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Holland, R. (1995). PC Architecture. In: Microcomputer Fault-finding and Design. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-13808-1_15

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