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From: Bertrand Lee
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 03:24

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On 21-Jan-93 in Re: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware 
user Coyt D Watters@magnus.ac writes:
>Since the P5 is officially the PENTIUM, and there are systems using V20, V30
>and 8088 processors out there, I think the .x86. designator may not be the 
>best for naming.  Maybe the generic "pc" could be used, though all the 
>competing architectures (Amiga, Mac, etc) can claim that they are also
>"personal computers".

I agree. This may be a personal opinion, but I feel that the term "pc"
is a lot more familiar and accessible than "x86". When I first saw the
term "x86" in this newsgroup, I did not understand what it meant.
Somehow, "386" and "486" sounds extremely different from "x86" That "x"
reminds me of xwindows, etc etc.


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Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 22:24:38 -0500 
From: Bertrand Lee <chameleon+@CMU.EDU>
Subject: Re: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
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