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There's an interesting debate there. Here's my thesis on it: Isolating the definiton of "PC" to the IBM lineage makes it a lot easier to contextualize the hist
by ryukoposting 2y ago
There's an interesting debate there. Here's my thesis on it:
Isolating the definiton of "PC" to the IBM lineage makes it a lot easier to contextualize the historical development of home computing. Example: my TRS-80 is a microcomputer, but it is not a PC. This is a sentence that younger generations can grok. If I say "my TRS-80 is a PC but not an IBM PC-compatible" their eyes glaze over.
- hulitu 2y ago> Isolating the definiton of "PC" to the IBM lineage makes it a lot easier to contextualize the historical development of home computing The definition of PC is IBM PC. That's why Visual Workstation is not a PC, Apollo DN3500 was not a PC, etc.
- scarface_74 2y agoThe “definition” of PC is “A personal computer (PC) is a microcomputer designed for use by one person at a time.” In common parlance it has come to mean “a computer running a Microsoft operating system”. Most people these days would consider an Arm based computer running Windows a “PC”.