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From: jh4o+@andrew.cmu.edu (Jeffrey T. Hutzelman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: PC's
Message-ID: <sc0_H5i00Vo9MA8VNr@andrew.cmu.edu>
Date: 8 Apr 91 17:13:41 GMT
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Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
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Because the "PC" is part of the computer's name.  The computer is the
IBM Personal Computer, as opposed to, say, the IBM 3090 mainframe.  IBM
did not consider the PC market at all important when the IBM PC was
introduced.  All their big computer money came from mainframes, and
probably still does.
.