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From: jsd@boreal.rice.edu (Shawn Joel Dube)
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Subject: Re: Industry Publications Ignoring the Amiga.
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Date: 15 Dec 90 21:54:51 GMT
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In article <49754@cornell.UUCP>, johnhlee@piccolo.cs.cornell.edu (John H. Lee) writes:

|> 
|> It wasn't too long ago that "PC" meant Personal Computer, not a specific
|> microcomputer, until IBM decided to corrupt computer jargon with the IBM PC.  
IBM corrupted computer jargon?  How?  They called their machine the "IBM PC," 
not just "PC".  Its is the IBM Personal Computer.  

|> 
|> Yet even today, many people associate "PC" with Personal Computer.  How many
|> people do you know will talk to you about "your PC" even when they know you
|> have an Amiga, MacIntosh, or 3b1?  Hence "PC World" connotes more general
|> coverage than actuality.
|> 

Yes, even I associate "PC" with a personal computer.  However, "PC" *can*
mean either one.  So "PC World" is either for all pc's or just IBM PC's.
Which name do you think sounds better, PC World or IBM PC World?

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