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, Amiga,
Atari, Macintosh.
(1994-11-02)
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