Re: DRI agrees to change GEM ; why?

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From: preece
Date: Mon, 04 Nov 1985 15:39

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> No, I don't remember when "PC" meant "a personal computer" in any
> generic sense.  And I doubt if you do either.  The only PC's that
> existed before IBM were "Pocket Computers".  IBM coined the term
> personal computer.  /* Written  8:26 am  Nov  1, 1985 by
> jimomura@lsuc.UUCP in ccvaxa:net.micro.atari */
----------
Oh, come on.  The term was nothing like as ubiquitous as it is now,
but both the term "personal computer" and the initialism "PC" were
in common use (among the relatively small number of people interested
in such things) well before the IBM PC.  One of the complaints about
the IBM was that they had co-opted a common and useful term as their
trademark.

-- 
scott preece
gould/csd - urbana
ihnp4!uiucdcs!ccvaxa!preece

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Subject: Re: DRI agrees to change GEM ; why?
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