IBM compatible
<computer> A computer which can use hardware and software designed for
the IBM PC (or, less often, IBM mainframes).
This was once a key phrase in marketing a new PC clone but now in 1998 is rarely
used, the non-IBM wintel personal computer manufacturers such as Compaq, Dell
and Gateway 2000 and OS vendor Microsoft having taken control of the market,
marginalising IBM.
(1998-07-30)
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