1.4 STANDARDS ORGANIZATIONS
Suppose you decide you’d like to have one of those nifty new LCD wide-screen monitors. You figure you can shop around a bit to find the best price. You make a few phone calls, surf the web, and drive around town until you find the one that gives you the most for your money. From your experience, you know you can buy your monitor anywhere and it will probably work fine on your system. You can make this assumption because computer equipment manufacturers have agreed to comply with connectivity and operational specifications established by a number of government and industry organizations.
Some of these standards-setting organizations are ad hoc trade associations or consortia made up of industry leaders. Manufacturers ...
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