On Sat, Oct 04, 2014 at 04:22:21PM -0400, Doug wrote: > On 10/04/2014 11:25 AM, John Hasler wrote: > > Harry Putnam writes: > >> So the unwary reader is led to believe that amd means an architecture > >> different from `pc'. > > > > "pc" doesn't mean an architecture. > > > This is probably not much help to the person who provoked the question. > > "PC" normally means a computer having an Intel or AMD processor, and > capable of running DOS, Windows, Linux, and some Unix's. It would be > applied to a desktop or laptop computer, not a mainframe, which also > might run those operating systems. > > As opposed to "MAC" which is a computer designed to run Apple Macintosh > software.
A MAC is still a PC. PC is short for Personal Computer. -- "If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing." --- Malcolm X -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20141005032313.GD4734@tal
