NEC PC-9801

PC-98 is a designation for on the NEC PC -9800 -based computer. PC-98 computers were very common in Japan.

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The PC -98 is partly similar to the IBM PC, but he has instead of the ISA bus called the C-Bus - a dedicated 16 -bit bus, which was installed in the PC -88 series of NEC. In addition, BIOS, I / O port addressing, memory management, and graphics output are different than traditional PCs.

Early 1990s were 50 percent of PCs sold in Japan PC -98. Because of their incompatibility to the then- dominant IBM compatible PCs, they have, however, can not prevail and are no longer made today.