Once the principle of binary compatibility was established, the stage was set for a company other than IBM to produce a machine that could run that same software, and that’s exactly what happened.

When the draft curriculum for computing was published I know that one of the elements that caused concern among ICT teachers was the inclusion of the word 'algorithm' as well as just how much computer ...

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