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Market Share of IBM PC vs. Apple and Clones 1981-1994

Market Share of IBM PC vs. Apple and Clones 1981-1994

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The IBM PC was the first digital computer platform that was open as a matter of strategy, not necessity. The purpose of this chapter is to understand the IBM PC as a technical system and set of organization choices in light of the theory of how technology shapes organizations. In Chapter 7, I argued that sponsors of large technical systems (includi...