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As with other industrial processes commercial IT has moved in all respects from a bespoke, craft-based industry where the product was tailored to fit the customer; to multi-use components taken off the shelf to find the best-fit in any situation. Mass-production has greatly reduced costs and IT is available to the smallest company or one-man band - or school-kid.JJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJIIIIIIIIIMMMMMMMMMMMM {| class="wikitable"
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LEO was hardware tailored for a single client. Today, [[Intel Pentium]] and compatible chips are standard and become parts of other components which are combined as needed. One individual change of note was the freeing of computers and removable storage from protected, air-filtered environments. [[Microsoft]] and [[IBM]] at various times have been influential enough to impose order on IT and the resultant standardisations allowed specialist software to flourish.