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bgrubb@dante.nmsu.edu (GRUBB) writes:
| How many products are labeled 'PC compatable' as opposed to 'IBM compatable'.

  I don't know how they are labelled, but because of the different bus
  standards, there are a lot of products that are made for the standard
  ISA-bus PC and not the IBM.  These products can't be labeled "IBM
  compatible."

  And what the heck does the term "pc-clone" mean?  If it's a clone of
  a PC, then what is the PC it is cloning?  

ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi) writes:
| This is a very difficult practical problem because of the history of
| the parlance.  On the sofware side one solution has been to use the
| word msdos instead of ibm.pc, but how can we do the same on the
| hardware side so that it is nether too narrow or too broad, because
| both will invite problems.

  I think anything more than "pc" is too wordy and contrived.  There are
  a lot of ftp sites that use "pc" to designate directories and there aren't
  a lot of people running around getting all confused over that.

  And what types of systems do you associate with "PC Magazine?"

  Since we will never find a definitive term, it is time we just claim a
  term that is simple and nearly, if not perfectly, apt.  Let's declare
  "pc" to mean systems that are based on the Intel x86 processors (or
  at least derived from these systems) and let everyone else cope with
  it.
  ==

  Bob                                           Seattle, Washington