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From: Kyonshi <gmkeros@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Speaking of old games...
Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2024 19:35:44 +0200
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On 4/24/2024 4:20 PM, Dimensional Traveler wrote:
> On 4/24/2024 3:58 AM, Lane Larson wrote:
>> JAB wrote:
>>> On 23/04/2024 20:17, Kyonshi wrote:
>>>> Yeah, I wouldn't call the C64 anything but a PC really. But I do 
>>>> remember that it started back then when they decided to split up 
>>>> categories into C64, Atari ST, Amiga,... and the (IBM) PC
>>>
>>> At the time computers like the C64, Spectrum etc. were just called 
>>> home computers and as far as I remember they were pretty much dead 
>>> before the term PC started to be commonly used.
>>>
>>> Personally I assume that if someone says PC* they mean a Windows 
>>> based desktop PC and not a more generic one.
>>>
>>> *Of course if they have an Apple PC then I'm pretty sure they will 
>>> tell you!
>>
>> The term doesn't really concern me.  I think it's falling out of 
>> favor. I can understand how Apple Mac users would be up in the air 
>> about it.
> 
> Apple users have to be up in the air about everything because that's 
> where their noses are.   ;)
> 

I mean, you have to breathe somehow.

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