Answer 5_8_2

Question 2

What de facto standards are there for PCs?

• The architecture is made up on the IBM standard.
• ASCII codes are used.
• The connectors are the same.
• The operating systems are the same.
• Hard drives, CD drives, floppy disks are all the same.
• Even modern computers may look to boot from a floppy disk, just like the early IBM machines form the 1980s.

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