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Today's "PCs" (as in Windows/Linux/... x86-64 box) have little in common with an IBM AT. There's still some compatibility on the software level but the hardware is vastly different.

  • Shugart FDD interface - gone
  • ST506/MFM HDD interface - gone
  • ISA bus - gone
  • DIN-style keyboard interface - gone (still somewhat common with the compatible PS/2 connector - but vanishing)
  • parallel printer port - gone
  • 25-pin serial port - gone
  • MDA/CGA/EGA video - gone

Even several successors of these vanished interfaces have gone:

  • IDE/EIDE/PATA
  • EISA bus
  • VLB
  • PCI bus
  • parallel SCSI
  • 9-pin serial port
  • VGA video (15-pin)

Even the AT's BIOS that has incredibly long worked as a core for later BIOSes is increasingly replaced by UEFI.

Anything substantial left?

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