VDict - Definition of personal computers

Computing (FOLDOC) dictionary (also found in English - English (Wordnet), )

personal computer

computer (PC) A general-purpose single-user microcomputer

designed to be operated by one person at a time.

This term and the concept has been successfully hijacked by

IBM due to the huge market share of the IBM PC, despite

its many obvious weaknesses when compared to other equally

valid claimants to the term, e.g. the Acorn Archimedes,

(1994-11-02)

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