On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 08:19:05PM +0700, Lie Ryan wrote:
But until the dictionary is rewritten, it is incorrect usage.
That's complete nonsense, much like the rest of your argument. People
use words all the time that aren't even IN a dictionary. Their
absence from any dictionary makes them
Dennis Lee Bieber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It gets even worse... No Windows-based PC has ever used the
PowerPC processor -- which had been a staple of the Macintosh before
they went Intel...
Actually the were personal computers sold using PowerPC processors that
ran Windows NT. I even
On 2008-07-21, Derek Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 02:56:07AM -0700, Lie wrote:
On Jul 19, 6:14=A0am, Derek Martin [EMAIL
From: Derek Martin
The term PC is commonly used in
English, in the United States and other English speaking countries, to
mean a computer running Microsoft Windows.
That isn't quite true.
My kids are heading off to college and are in the market for laptops.
The question they had for
On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 02:47:31PM -0700, Lie wrote:
Common usage isn't always correct.
Actually it is, inherently... When usage becomes common, the language
becomes redefined, and its correctness is therefore true by identity
(to borrow a mathematical term). The scholars complain for a
On Mon, 2008-07-21 at 18:50 -0400, Derek Martin wrote:
On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 02:47:31PM -0700, Lie wrote:
Common usage isn't always correct.
Actually it is, inherently... When usage becomes common, the language
becomes redefined, and its correctness is therefore true by identity
(to
On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 10:34:41PM -0700, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
On Fri, 18 Jul 2008 19:14:43 -0400, Derek Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
declaimed the following in comp.lang.python:
On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 03:46:13PM -0700, Joel Teichroeb wrote:
Calling Windows PC seems to be something that
On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 12:32:00PM -0700, Lie wrote:
The term PC is commonly used in English, in the United States
and other English speaking countries, to mean a computer running
Microsoft Windows.
As far as I am aware, they're like that because most people aren't
even aware that there
On Mon, 2008-07-21 at 16:45 -0400, Derek Martin wrote:
On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 12:32:00PM -0700, Lie wrote:
The term PC is commonly used in English, in the United States
and other English speaking countries, to mean a computer running
Microsoft Windows.
As far as I am aware, they're
On Jul 19, 6:14 am, Derek Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 03:46:13PM -0700, Joel Teichroeb wrote:
Calling Windows PC seems to be something that Apple did so they would
not have to directly mention Windows.
Actually it's something IBM did when they created the IBM PC.
On 2008-07-19, Dennis Lee Bieber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, 18 Jul 2008 19:14:43 -0400, Derek Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
declaimed the following in comp.lang.python:
On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 03:46:13PM -0700, Joel Teichroeb wrote:
Calling Windows PC seems to be something that Apple did so
Grant Edwards schrieb:
Not that I remember. I had a homebrew S-100 bus system, worked
with varioius Commodore machines,
My C64 has a label that says Personal Computer on it.
So a C64 is a PC.
Sebastian
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On Sat, 19 Jul 2008 11:02:51 -0500, Grant Edwards wrote:
On 2008-07-19, Dennis Lee Bieber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Which term applied to the TRS-80, the Apple II, Altair even...
Not that I remember. I had a homebrew S-100 bus system, worked
with varioius Commodore machines, a few Apples,
Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sat, 19 Jul 2008 11:02:51 -0500, Grant Edwards wrote:
On 2008-07-19, Dennis Lee Bieber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Which term applied to the TRS-80, the Apple II, Altair even...
Not that I remember. I had a homebrew S-100 bus system,
On Saturday 19 July 2008 22:30:29 Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
I still wonder who came up with the Commodore PET -- Personal
Electronic Transactor... yeesh... But the Personal was already in play
way back then.
Probably Chuck Peddle, Jack Tramiel or Leonard Tramiel.
For your amusement:
In trunk of the svn there is a folder called PCbuild. Now lets say that
I am running linux on my Personal Computer and want to build python. I
go into the PCbuild directory, but wait. This is for windows not for any
personal computer.
Calling Windows PC seems to be something that Apple did so
On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 03:46:13PM -0700, Joel Teichroeb wrote:
Calling Windows PC seems to be something that Apple did so they would
not have to directly mention Windows.
Actually it's something IBM did when they created the IBM PC. Of
course, all IBM PCs ran MS-DOS, since that's how IBM
Calling Windows PC seems to be something that Apple did so they would
not have to directly mention Windows. Could all the places that say PC
that are not referring to Personal Computers in general be changed to
Win or Windows.
That's bikeshedding. If the name stops you from building your
On 2008-07-18, Martin v. Löwis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Calling Windows PC seems to be something that Apple did so
they would not have to directly mention Windows. Could all the
places that say PC that are not referring to Personal
Computers in general be changed to Win or Windows.
That's
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