but the SLT/286 was more powerful. At the close of the 1980s, Compaq continued its tradition of pushing the limits of the PC market by releasing what some consider to be the first IBM-compatible ...

IN THE BEGINNING there was the IBM PC, and it was good ... The VIS was essentially a stripped-down 286 PC running a custom version of Windows. It flopped horribly in the marketplace, and few ...

I am new to Vista and the Internet and I have an old IBM 286 system. Can a program (Mind ... If you're comfortable working inside your old PC, copy the floppies (let's hope they're readable ...

Intel has had a deathgrip on the PC world since the standardization around the software and hardware available on IBM boxes in the ... Even though the 186 and 286 were available at the time ...

How that came to be is no secret, of course: IBM chose the Intel 8088 to power its model 5150 PC back in the early 1980s, and since it became the dominant PC platform, everyone else followed suit.

Well, this is awkward. As the IBM PC celebrates its 30th birthday today, one of its original designers is already mulling the end of its reign. In a blog post penned this week, Mark Dean ...