Re: FN-FORUM: software for managing/creating HTML email campaigns

date posted 18th March 2008 11:41

On Tuesday 18 March 2008 13:33:03 Alain Williams wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 11:42:48AM -0000, Jon Warner wrote:
> > Lets not get into semantics. PC = MS Windows PC. Mac = Mac.
>
> Rubbish. Read the initials: PC = 'Personal Computer'.
>
> Thus whatever someone uses for their personal computing is a PC.

Whatever the origins, I think that PC has come to mean the "industry
standard" architecture in a desktop format [1]. And given that the majority
of such boxes run Windows, if the operating system is not specified it's
assumed to be a Windows variant.

I wouldn't refer to my (Ubuntu) laptop as a PC, for example.

[1] Arguably the origin is in the phrase "IBM PC compatible".