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From: lws@comm.WANG.COM (Lyle Seaman)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: OS/2 vs. Unix
Message-ID: <1990Mar16.211009.9563@comm.WANG.COM>
Date: 16 Mar 90 21:10:09 GMT
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CMH117@psuvm.psu.edu (Charles Hannum) writes:

>One of the problems with Unix on a PC is this:

>  Who on Earth needs a multi-user PC?

>A multi-user NeXT, I can understand, but a PC?  Why?

So I can play xtank with all the members of my family, of course.

On a related note(?), the term PC was originally coined to refer to a 
basically single-user machine, that just -happened- to have a 
microprocessor CPU.  Now that PCs are going multi-user, when are we 
going to dump the PC moniker, and start referring to these as simply
microcomputers (slightly more accurate)?

Followups to ??
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