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Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: What's a PC?
Message-ID: <864@apple.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 29-May-87 17:46:49 EDT
Article-I.D.: apple.864
Posted: Fri May 29 17:46:49 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 30-May-87 12:08:07 EDT
References: <839@vu-vlsi.UUCP> <3610@jade.BERKELEY.EDU> <683@mipos3.UUCP> <3664@jade.BERKELEY.EDU>
Organization: Apple Computer, Inc., Cupertino, USA
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Summary: Macintosh is an MSDOS machine ...

In article <3664@jade.BERKELEY.EDU>, mwm@eris.BERKELEY.EDU (Mike (My watch has windows) Meyer) writes:
> 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.
> 
It also is a usage that will crumble under the pressure of technological
change.  PC is often used in the sense of IBM/PC compatible machine, i.e.
an MSDOS machine.  Since Macintosh is now capable of running MSDOS (in
addition to CP/M86 (sold be someone ...) and UN*X) that makes a Mac
an IBM/PC compatible...  This bizzare realization hit me some time after
Apple announced the Mac SE.  So even if the term PC could be restricted 
to IBM/PC compatibles, the restriction would fail as more folks run more
different OS's on their machines.


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