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It's really a testament to the success of the IBM PC that people now attach the "PC" label to any non-Apple home computer.
by PeCaN 8y ago
It's really a testament to the success of the IBM PC that people now attach the "PC" label to any non-Apple home computer.
- 8bitsrule 8y agoThe other way around: the term 'Personal Computer' existed years before the IBM, and they were running scared down in Boca Raton, so they tried to co-opt the term. Chaplin or not, many of us wanted nothing to do with Big Blue and its 27 feet of manuals. Its 'success', like that of MS, is down to religion.