[nflug] tw rr screwjob

[K Olkowski]

I'm semantically intolerant today, as I am most days.

ISN'T A MAC A PC (PERSONAL COMPUTER)?  Since when did Microsoft co-opt 
the PC moniker?  Which word in "personal computer" necessitates both 
Intel architecture and a Microsoft operating system in its definition? 
Does an AMD device fit into this description neatly?  What does that 
make a computing device running Linux - a breadbox?  I'm so frustrated 
by the ignorance being propagated on this subject.  Similar feelings of 
anger surface when someone refers to media in VHS format as "video."

So, to sum up:
A PC is a personal computer.  It is a computer for personal use.  There 
are many types of personal computer.
-	"Dell Optiplex" is a subset of "personal computer," based on an Intel 
processor and IBM architecture, regardless of operating system.  (I'll 
even go so far as to say that it typically runs Windows.)
-	"Penguin Computing Tempest 2150 Workstation" is a subset of "personal 
computer," based on an AMD processor and IBM architecture, regardless of 
operating system, tho it happens to come pre-installed with Red Hat 
Enterprise, SUSE Enterprise, or Fedora.
-	"Imac" (cutesy spellings piss me off too) is a subset of "personal 
computer," based on a Motorola processor and Apple architecture, 
regardless of operating system, tho it happens to come pre-installed 
with Mac OS 10. (Feel free to correct me about the actual version, and 
yes: Roman numerals piss me off too.)
Installing another operating system on any of these "personal 
computers," or indeed formatting the hard drive (assuming 1 hard drive 
per "personal computer") on any, or booting any with a live CD, will not 
make them any more or less a "personal computer."  And, altho the 
"Wintel" (R) "personal computer" seems to be the most popular paradigm 
of such, none of these types are a default "personal computer."

(I can't remember that far back: in the days when Beta was obtainable, 
of VHS and Beta, was one typically referred to lazily as "video?")

Cyber Source wrote:
<snip>
> You can find them all on youtube. Here's one of my favs...
> 
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cldeHjFig_c
> 
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