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10.* 10.* Lesson 10 A brief history of PC (Part II) Part II – the competition In 1980, IBM was still the largest computer company in the world It dominated the mainframe market Very focused on customers’ demands To ensure quality it had created a lot of overheads It had (and I think still has) a conservative culture IBM started to notice Apple success and strived to dominate the PC market as well It decided to adopt the open architecture, why? Is the decision to adopt open architecture a wise decision? Part II – Riding the bear IBM bought almost every piece of hardware component from the marke