I know that. What's your point? Also, maybe you should write to the listees who call a PC a CPU or sometimes even their "hard drive". I say IBM compatible because of the fact that IBM released the first PC based on that format. I suppose I could use AT of ATX to describe IBM compatible PC's but is known through the industry when speaking of IBM compatibles you are speaking of what is opposite Mac.
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