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Date Submitted: 08/01/2014 03:03 PM
Introduction
Technological development in the PC industry has been openly marked by the competition between two basic projects. One project is associated with the Microsoft and IBM personal computing architecture, initially based on MS-DOS. The other design for personal computing created by Apple Computer is Macintosh. These two styles materialized into quite different basic projects, of which one project, the IBM-Microsoft version, became prevailing.
It is not the intention of this paper to debate about the competition among the PC manufacturers such as Compaq, HP and others. The main idea is to focus on the changes produced in the framework of the microcomputer industry caused by the competition between PC industry, which will be a reference to the design originated by IBM and Microsoft from now on, and Apple Macintosh.
Mac vs PC
Inside the microcomputer industry two major groups of competitors can be highlighted, one formed by PCs, whose operating system is Microsoft Windows, and the other one is the Macintosh, a computer made by Apple and equipped with the iOS operating system.
Since the emergence of the personal computers in the early 80s, Macintosh and PC have lived different moments. Until the mid-90s, the PC industry is rivaled by Apple market. The PC market, already fragmented in time with the existence of many competitors, began to gain prominence with the evolution of microprocessors and especially with the evolution of the operating system. Much of this development was linked to the way the PC industry was operating, where companies increasingly gained scale and provoking new investments in new technologies by its suppliers.
The main highlights in terms of technological developments were due to Intel's increasingly powerful and also by Microsoft with Windows and evolution, which, in 1995, had already launched Windows 98 causing a boom in the market processors.
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