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Re:A preview of x64 emulation on Windows for ARM by icedchai on Friday December 11, 2020 @10:51PM (#25395343)
In the 80's, "PC" meant IBM or compatible. Nobody ever called their Apple, Amiga, Commodore 64, etc. a "PC."

There were even some products, like the "Apple II PC Transporter" that made your Apple II compatible with a PC. That meant an IBM PC.

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Re:A preview of x64 emulation on Windows for ARM by nvrspyx on Monday December 14, 2020 @03:26PM (#25422802)
Right. My point was that "PC" was used exclusively for IBM as a marketing term, but it was not the only "personal computer" available. PC became a generalized term much later, although Apple still held on to PC being a term for any computer that was Windows-based (or simply any computer that wasn't a Mac).
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