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| Newer page: | version 4 | Last edited on Saturday, October 11, 2003 11:46:06 pm | by StuartYeates | Revert |
| Older page: | version 2 | Last edited on Saturday, October 11, 2003 1:27:22 am | by AristotlePagaltzis | Revert |
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-[Acronym] for __P__ersonal __C__omputer
+[Acronym] for __P__ersonal __C__omputer, an [IBM] trademark.
The idea that everyone would have their own machine was once a strange dream. Back then, people had a terminal connected to a larger machine shared among many users. The world turned, and the computer industry was forever changed.
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+[IBM] trademarked the term and specialised it to mean a [x86] machine running [DOS]. This later evolved into WinTel. This leads to great confusion when pedants (like StuartYeates) refer to [AppleMacintosh] machines as [PC]s.
