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From: pritch@osupyr.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Prentice-Hall's Return Policy
Message-ID: <226@osupyr.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 3-Feb-87 15:35:50 EST
Article-I.D.: osupyr.226
Posted: Tue Feb  3 15:35:50 1987
Date-Received: Wed, 4-Feb-87 18:52:10 EST
References: <1646@ihlpl.UUCP> <7318@elsie.UUCP> <119@astroatc.UUCP>
Reply-To: pritch@osupyr.UUCP (Norm Pritchett)
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Xref: watmath comp.os.minix:165 comp.sys.ibm.pc:1368

In article <119@astroatc.UUCP> johnw@astroatc.UUCP (John F. Wardale) writes:
>In article <7318@elsie.UUCP> ado@elsie.UUCP (Arthur David Olson) writes:
>>PC and AT are trademarks of IBM.
>
>*NO****************NO*******************NO*
>
>PC means "Personal Computer" which includes Mac's, Atari's,
>	Amiga's, etc.etc.etc.
>
>"IBM-PC" may be an ibm tm, but not "PC" by itself
>
>		John W and the committee to stomp out the
>			miss-use of the term "PC"
>
>- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 
>Name:	John F. Wardale
>UUCP:	... {seismo | harvard | ihnp4} !uwvax!astroatc!johnw

And depending on who you talk to someone might says its a protocol converter
or a programmable controller.