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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

even if it is for something as simple as adding Flash-based storage to an original IBM PC. [Heading image: Snark Barker ISA SoundBlaster clone board. Credit: Tube Time] ...

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 ...

Intel and AMD have formed an advisory group for the x86 processor platform, hoping to “shape the future of the world’s most widely used computing architecture.” Its ...

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 ...

When a revolutionary new product launches, what’s the best way to invest in its success? By buying that product-maker’s stock ...

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 ...

the personal computer (PC), referring to a computer based on the original IBM PC and its successors (including PC-compatibles); and the "Mac", referring to the Macintosh made by Apple Computer.

As we described earlier this year, operating a quantum computer will ... one of the things that IBM did recently is rewrite the Qiskit stack in Rust, rather than its original Python.

Since 1983, IBM stock itself has done well, rising more than 800% on the back of continued PC growth. But that original IBM PC was powered by an x86-architecture Intel (INTC) 8088 processor.