Too Early To Tell If DNSChanger Was Overhyped

[christarp]

hey look, another news post being completely derailed by people complaining about macs for no reason. Nice job.

 

[applegetsmelaid]

No me gusta mac. Yo se Mac tiene virus tambien. Si. Flautas.

 

[ojas]

[citation][nom]jacekring[/nom]The newer macs are PC's, but older macs are not. PC does NOT stand for Personal Computer. PC stands for IBM compatible personal computing device. Meaning they need to use an IBM form factor, new macs do because they utilize Intel/AMD chips, while older macs did not they used a custom form factor and processor.That's why your phone is NOT a PC, because it doesn't use x86 architecture.[/citation]
you're pretty much there. I'm quoting from a book written around 1996:

The term PC-compatible, or PC for short, refers to the IBM PC and any of the many, many personal computers derived from it. From another angle, a PC is any computer that can run Microsoft's MS-DOS operating system and whose expansion bus is compatible with the ISA bus in the original IBM PC. The category includes the PC, XT, AT, PS/2, and most compters with 80x86, Pentium, and compatible CPUs. It does not include the Macintosh, Amiga, or IBM mainframes, though these and other computer types may have ports that are similar to the parallel port on the PC"

Jan Axelson, Parallel Port Complete

Obviously current macs are PCs because they run on x86, however PowerPC macs were not.

 

[ojas]

[citation][nom]jacekring[/nom]That's why your phone is NOT a PC, because it doesn't use x86 architecture.[/citation]
I'm not sure where that puts the medfield phones :O