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plug-compatible

American  
[pluhg-kuhm-pat-uh-buhl] / ˈplʌg kəmˌpæt ə bəl /

adjective

Computers.

  1. of or relating to computers or peripheral devices that are functionally equivalent to, and may be substituted for, other models.

plug compatible British  

adjective

  1. computing (of peripheral devices) designed to be plugged into computer systems produced by different manufacturers

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By purchasing an Amdahl computer and so-called plug-compatible peripheral devices from third-party manufacturers, customers could now run System/370 programs without buying IBM hardware.

From New York Times • Nov. 12, 2015

“It wasn’t a plug-compatible mainframe clone that dethroned IBM; it wasn’t a free operating system like Linux that dethroned Windows.”

From New York Times • Dec. 11, 2013

Among those most at risk are makers of so-called plug-compatible computers that run IBM software but sell for less.

From Time Magazine Archive

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