The electronic computer has been around for over a half-century, but its ancestors have been around for 2000 years. From abacus to our modern souped up computer with the Intel Pentium III processor the computer has come an incredibly long way. One of the most significant events that would affect it’s development would be the teaming up of IBM and Microsoft to create a new operating system for the microcomputer. The synergy of these two …showed first 75 words of 924 total…

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