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by mechanical_fish
6110 days ago
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Yes, that's right. What I'm saying is that IBM successfully sold the term "IBM PC" because it contained the magic letters I-B-M. But then the magic slowly spread to the other half of the phrase IBM PC, to the point where PC eventually became synonymous with IBM. |
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Compaq won the white-room reverse engineering suits against IBM, opening the door for dozens of manufacturers to make clones of the IBM PC/XT/AT.
Eventually the term "PC Clone" got shortened to "PC" when referring to anything that was compatible with the PC-AT standard.