| From: | John Marchant |
| Date: | 26 Apr 2001 at 19:31:30 |
| Subject: | Re: Have I got a PC |
Hi G.A.Griggs. In a message on 25-Apr-01 21:48:53, you wrote:
>What if I said I've got a Home Computer not a Personal Computer, Since
>Personal Computers are commanly undertood to mean machines based on IBM
>Bussiness Computer originally using IIRC 8086 cpu's.
This discussion could go on for ever, using Humpty Dumpty's Law (he
made words mean what he wanted them to mean). I could say "I have 3
Amigas and a Widget". But nobody else would know that my "Widget"
is a custom-built "PC", which I intend should mean "an IBM PC
clone". And even that isn't very informative.
All we can usefully do is use the meanings that "most people seem
to be using", and then hopefully most people will understand us.
And before I drop this topic [loud cheers from bored readers], I
keep reading lately of "PDAs" - e.g. in AA20 Active News". Blowed
if I can find or guess what these are.
John
There were plagues of locusts, and frogs, and PC clones.
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