On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 4:50 PM, Gene Giannamore<gene.giannam...@abideinternational.com> wrote: > I don’t know why, but PC always means to me Personal Computer (not an IBM > compatible, or WinTel, or x86/x64). Problem is, I can’t think of anything > better. I always think of personal computer as any computing device, > intended for personal ownership.
Me too, except I think "personal use", not just ownership, i.e., "individual use". In contrast to a server, which is used by many. So laptops and desktop computers in the company are "PCs". For what most Windows runs on, that's that "IBM-PC architecture". Or "i386". (Or sometimes "x86-64", these days.) On occasion I'll also use "GPC" for "general-purpose computer", when I need to contrast a Wintel box with test equipment or a PLC or something. Other people's usage never really bothered me; I'm just precise in my own. -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
