Macintosh vs. IBM
Title: Macintosh vs. IBM
Category: /Science & Technology/Computers and Cybernetics
Details: Words: 3118 | Pages: 11 (approximately 235 words/page)
Macintosh vs. IBM
Category: /Science & Technology/Computers and Cybernetics
Details: Words: 3118 | Pages: 11 (approximately 235 words/page)
The IBM and Macintosh computers have been in competition with each other for years, and each
of them have their strong points. They both had their own ideas about where they should go in
the personal computer market. They also had many developments, which propelled themselves
over the other.
It all started when Thomas John Watson became president of Computing Tabulating Recording
in 1914, and in 1924 he renamed it to International Business Machines Corporation. He
eventually
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IBM as well. Motorola as its chip manufacturer,
caused them to be one step behind the Intel based IBM-compatibles. Not licensing out its
software so that third parties could create software for it, was also a down fall for it. Now, that
the IBM-compatible computer has a strong support it is very unlikely that Apple will be able to
bring back a large user group for its personal computer, even though their computers are faster.