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Old 11-09-2010, 01:45 PM   #41
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Originally Posted by hal2814 View Post
The PC was a closed platform, too. The only difference was that IBM kept clones out of the market through controlling their BIOS while Apple controlled both the ROM and the OS.
The MAC also kept the add-on board market tied up to Apple where the various bus architectures were varying degrees of open for the PC market.
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