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From: JAB <noway@nochance.com>
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Subject: Re: Did EGA Save PC Gaming?
Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2024 11:22:10 +0100
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On 24/07/2024 16:10, Zaghadka wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Jul 2024 20:40:58 +0100, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action, JAB
> wrote:
> 
>> On 22/07/2024 16:09, Zaghadka wrote:
>>> To "PC" game, because these were also contemporary "personal computers,"
>>> you had a C=64, Atari ST, Amiga, or Speccy (thanks JAB!). An MSX in
>>> Japan. That's what kept enthusiasm going. I never accepted IBM ownership
>>> of the term. To call them the source of PC gaming in the 80's is, IMHO,
>>> silly. I regard the Z-80, the 6502, and the Motorolla 68000 as primary
>>> contributors to continuity of computer gaming. IBM was for work. The
>>> 80286 was simply not a gaming chip. The 8086 was a footnote.
>>
>> I can't say it's something that's ever bothered me as in the 80's the
>> term personal computer wasn't really used here but instead home
>> computer. Also when I hear the term PC I actually don't think of
>> 'personal computer' as such but instead an IBM compatible which isn't a
>> laptop even that that's also a PC, or is it. I think I've confused
>> myself now!
>>
> 
> To each his own. I wore a Che Guevara shirt with "The C=64 is also a PC,
> idiots!" emblazoned over his face. All you could see was the beret.
> 
> I lived a stone's throw from Armonk at the time, though.
> 

Getting peeved for no particular reason is part of the human condition!

Part of me dies inside every time I see someone use acronym 
interchangeable with abbreviation. I do now have to accept that meaning 
has basically entered common usage but still.

Another one is begs for question for raises the question instead of its 
more formal meaning.