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From: schaut@cat9.cs.wisc.edu (Rick Schaut)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Microcomputers or PC's (Re: OS/2 vs. Unix)
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Date: 22 Mar 90 11:30:21 GMT
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In article <1990Mar16.211009.9563@comm.WANG.COM> lws@comm.WANG.COM (Lyle Seaman) writes:
| 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)?

When people can type the word "microcomputer" using the same number of
keystrokes as they can use to type "PC".  Actually, I favor the term
"workstation" myself, but I also recognize the futility of trying to
promote the use of such terms in an industry where rule #1 is "never
use a real word when a neat little acronym can be found."

--
Rick (schaut@garfield.cs.wisc.edu)

"I'm a theory geek; we use Turing machines!"--Gary Lewandowski