Posted by Roy L. Fuchs on 06/12/06 09:45

On Sun, 11 Jun 2006 22:17:46 -0500, "Jay G." <Jay@tmbg.org> Gave us:

>On Sun, 11 Jun 2006 19:05:34 GMT, Roy L. Fuchs wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 11 Jun 2006 13:03:15 -0500, "Jay G." <Jay@tmbg.org> Gave us:
>>
>>>"If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck...."
>>>
>> That must be why I call you retarded.
>
>I'm not the one that said that something that's built like a PC, has a PC
>OS, and is very "PC-like" is not a PC.
>
>Frankly, by the time you used the phrase "PC-like," you had lost your
>original argument, although you didn't notice it.

Not at all. A "Personal Computer" (PC) has a user interface
(keyboard) and has several functions which all of us with any brains
have come to know that are what constitute a personal computing
experience. Just because some of the same guts got used in the thing
does NOT make it a personal computer.

The i80186 never made it into a PC, as the i80286 was already done
being developed. As a result, the i80186 chip ended up getting used
in industrial controls... for decades! Nobody went around calling
ANY of those devices a PC, even though all the registers were the
same, and all the other accoutrements associated with PCs at that time
were still incorporated into the chip. It is still used to this day.

Get a clue.

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