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From: ericb@athertn.Atherton.COM (Eric Black)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: R.I.P. BYTE:  Open Letter to The Editor
Message-ID: <207@mango.athertn.Atherton.COM>
Date: 8 Aug 88 20:43:49 GMT
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Organization: Atherton Technology, Sunnyvale, CA
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In article <6756@well.UUCP> ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab) writes:
>>Remember when "pc" meant "personal computer" and not "IBM-PC or knockoff" ??
>>Paul S. Sawyer              uunet!unh!unhtel!paul     paul@unhtel.UUCP
>
>	Until the Pee-Cee came out, I always thought it stood for "printed
>circuit".
>

Uh, no, it really meant "Programmable Controller".  This term has been
munged into "Programmable Logic Controller", which used to be the name
of the particular product that Allen-Bradley sold, but has now become
somewhat generic.

-- 
Eric Black	"Garbage in, Gospel out"
Atherton Technology, 1333 Bordeaux Dr., Sunnyvale, CA, 94089
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