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From: mwm@eris.BERKELEY.EDU (Mike (My watch has windows) Meyer)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: What's a PC?
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Date: Thu, 21-May-87 05:24:23 EDT
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In article <2765@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu> rgoodman@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu (Ron Carl Goodman) writes:
<When I appllied for a summer job, people who said PC experience were referring
<to IBM-PC's, not PC's in general. 

In that case, they're helping IBM in it's attempt to convince people
that it invented the term "Personal Computer," the concepts attached
to it, and the acronym PC.

Since none of this is remotely true, this attempt is a bad thing, and
people supporting it by said misuse should be corrected ASAP.

	<mike
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