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Originally Posted by pdurrant
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Well, yes. My "... , really" reply shows that I don't agree with that name. I thins it's (deliberately) misleading.
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I think that any attempt to keep "PC" as a term for any kind of Personal Computer is futile.
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"PC" refers to the hardware and architecture. Sure, Windows is the most popular OS, but it's not the only one. My workstation here is built on standard PC hardware. (If you think that I must be one of those
condescending UNIX users, you'd be almost correct.)
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It has long since come to only be used for a Microsoft Windows based Personal Computer.
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So what am I supposed to call my Linux based home machine? Is it not a "Personal Computer?" I do all of my personal computing on it, just so you know. (I'll be silent of the FreeBSD based machine in the basement).
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Originally Posted by Astrakan
For the record, I run Windows Vista, Windows 95, OS X Snow Leopard and Ubuntu 11 on the four computers in my house.
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So that makes, what, 2 PCs, 1 Mac and one ... what now?