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Any rational person that doesn't know the backstory will ask you "why is a Mac, a personal computer, not considered to be a PC?" Then you will have to disambig

Any rational person that doesn't know the backstory will ask you "why is a Mac, a personal computer, not considered to be a PC?" Then you will have to disambiguate "PC as in personal computer" vs "PC as in IBM PC compatible". And then the expected rational response to your explanation would be "then why won't you call it IBM PC compatible then?" and the response to that is "because I am lazy and use language in an ambiguous way".

scheeseman486 4y ago
"why is a Mac, a personal computer, not considered to be a PC?" "Because what we call PCs today are derived from the IBM PC and people got sick of saying the IBM part. tha end."
Tor3 4y ago
Did you read the article? It explained about that. A lot. The name of that particular computer had "PC" in it, and not because of IBM (NEC used that in 1979 already, for example).