So what's "PC" ??

[LostKnight]

I make a "partial" quote from a post here, doesn't matter who, what I'm talking about comes between the brackets:

...it. (PC only...) I re...

PC only ... the list goes on:

1. PC Personal Computer (generic term)
2. PC - Professional Corporation (business legal entity)
3. PC - Piece
4. PC - Politically Correct
5. PC - Post Cibum (Latin: After Meals)
6. PC - Personal Computer (IBM commercial desktop model)
7. PC - Professional Computer
8. PC - Post Card
9. PC - Power Control
10. PC - Program Control
11. PC - Personal Care
12. PC - Program Code
13. PC - Pocket Computer
14. 89 entries later the list ends.

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Take a look at that "#6 - Personal Computer (IBM commercial desktop model)" Remember when ALL "desktop" computers were "Brand Name" computers? Compaq, Pacard Bell, Epson, Commodore, et al

Now the reason I ask is way back when; a PC meant "personal computer" - your computer that you have at home, that you own, had nothing to do with PC-DOS, MS-DOS OSX, DR-DOS, etc. It was the "hardware" pure and simple.

Somewhere down the road/over time it came to mean: Any computer running Windows and not iOS

Now neither Windows nor iOS is a computer they are operating Systems.

So I'm curious - Why does PC today mean a computer (desktop, laptop, notebook, netbook or tablet) running Windows and no other OS?

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NOTE: Please no flames, no anger just good solid facts, or mushy if you insist, or opinions.

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Too far Off Topic - feel free to delete and slap my knuckles.

[GOLGREN]

GOLGREN ATE A PC ONCE;}

[LostKnight]

GOLGREN ATE A PC ONCE;}

:lol: :lol: :lol: Was it plugged in?

Probably burped "code" for a week :lol: :lol:

[DAVEmanda]

I tell PC to all computers, in the case of iOS yes too but sometimes I tell "Mac" too

[MadMikael]

I think it's common now for PC to be thought of as a windows computer, rather than a "personal computer", as was taught 30 or so years ago.

I think as well, that it was the other companies who wanted to distinguish themselves away from the windows computer... and started to make the distinction. I remember a series of advertisements about Macs vs. PCs... I found them hilarious... they were made by Mac btw.
Google it sometime (try Mac and PC commercial Vista) (OR similar; that one is a video with the bodyguard... loved it )

Oh, same for Linux (and variations). They don't want to be confused with the entity that is windows.

I'm not 100% on this stuff, but that's how I see it anyway.