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In this background enters IBM [[DOS/V]], developped by IBM in Japan, and licensed to other Japanese PC manufacturers. To promote the IBM PC architecture on which DOS/V worked, IBM sponsored a consortium called the PC Open Architecture Developpers' Group (usually called "OADG' in Japan) in 1991, and made public its internal architecture and interfaces.

At the height of their actvitiesactivities, the consortium included as its members the major Japanese PC manufactures, such as Toshiba and Hitachi, and the overseas manufacturers, such as [[Acer Inc.|Acer]] of [[Taiwan]] and [[Dell]] of U.S. Together they not only tried to keep a unified architecture, but also compiled a list of DOS/V-compatible application software programs and participated in the major computer shows.

By the time Misrosoft [[Windows 95]] arrived in 1995, the IBM PC architecture was already a predominant force in Japan's computer scene, using IBM or Microsoft DOS/V. The consortium also supported [[OS/2]], but its effort on this front was not successful.

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*[[Fujitsu]], Ltd.

*[[Panasonic Corporation]]

==See also==