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Technically speaking, a Mac IS a PC, so why the hell's Apple got us all saying Mac and PC? amirite?
by Anonymous10 years ago
i never understood Steve Jobs calling computers running windows 'PCs' too.
by Anonymous13 years ago
But no-one's speaking technically when they talk about it, that's why we differentiate between the two. PC has become synonymous with Windows-based systems because of their dominance over the market throughout the 90s and beyond. It's either we say Mac or PC, or we start saying Windows PC and Mac PC - which do you think sounds better? Many things we say and agree on aren't technically true, it's just called convention. Deal with it.
by Anonymous10 years ago
Actually, PC stand for "IBM PC compatible", this should make it clearer : http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_PC_compatible#Origins
by Anonymous10 years ago
but that's not the convention now, so it's kind of meaningless to bring it up for the sakes of this argument.
by Anonymous10 years ago
It's not, at the time PCs were the direct concurrents of the Apple computers.
Until recently, nearly all the computers were either Apple computers or had a PC architecture (now Macintoshes are PCs too). I admit that current PCs are far from the original PC.
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