![]() Microsoft Windows originated on the IBM PC platform as a graphical shell that ran on top of MS-DOS, which originated in 1981 alongside the IBM PC. These PCs could use peripherals and software created for that platform and its clones. At that point, the term “PC compatible” or just “PC” became a generic catchall for non-IBM computers that descended from the IBM PC. Within a few years, companies began cloning IBM PCs and creating compatible machines without the IBM label. Since the product’s name was a mouthful, people almost immediately began calling it the “IBM PC” for short. In August 1981, IBM released the IBM Personal Computer in the United States.
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