What does it mean for a computer to be an "IBM Compatible PC"?
- by Jon
A couple questions about this:
1) Is this term even relevant any more?
2) Does this mean anything from a developer's stand point?
It is not exactly clear to me if this is a BIOS, architecture, bus or a combination. A piece of software I'm working on expects to see a "Description" of the system and currently windows machines report "AT/AT Compatible". Having been tasked to port this to Mac, I really don't know what a proper "Description" would be - this will most likely be omitted but I was wondering if anyone could provide some insight on the modern usage of this term.