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IBM opened their own stores selling all IBM hardware as well as their own brand of software,sac longchamp. The software had been written by third parties and adapted for the PC- DOS (IBM‘s proprietary version of the Microsoft Operating System DOS sold under license),longchamp pas cher. IBM insisted that all the software be packaged in the very same standard plain white boxes with identical blue labeling.

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However,chaussures converse pas cher, these first generation ATs were plagued by frequent hard disk failures,sac longchamp. Without any warning,abercrombie outlet, a user’s disk would fail and important and essential data would be lost,converse all star. The problem was so widespread that IBM clones manufacturers started to erode IBM’s market dominance,sac longchamp pas cher.

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The PC/AT continued to sell well,converse pas cher, but IBM’s market share began to erode,abercrombie, even though it was selling more machines than ever before,converse all star. Other clone manufacturers (Compaq and Advanced Logic Research for example) moved quickly on Intel’s next big microprocessor introductions.

The die was set. The IBM PC set the standards but the clone manufacturers forever dominated the market which IBM had developed and lost,abercrombie online shops 93477
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