The Compaq and Digital team promises the whole enchilada, a complete range product and services for consumers and in addition turning up the heat in the computer market. ... HP is teaming with Microsoft and Intel in producing new products for example; HP and Intel are working on a next generation chip to run other operating systems besides MS Windows. ... The computer industry has several very large and well-respected companies, which are creating a very competitive environment for Dell, not mentioning all the smaller companies fueling competition. ...

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In order to look at the operating systems, we must first ask the questions "What is a computer?" and then "What is an operating system?" In his book A History of Modern Computing, Paul Ceruzzi states that "computers were invented to "compute": to solve "complex mathematical problems," as the dict...

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