PCs or Personal computers?

[Wetzel]

The first and thrid option in the poll are the same thing worded diffrently.

Personaly, when I use the term pc I am refering to Windows compatable machines only. Mostly, I use neither personal computer or pc, just computer. I'm young enough (19) that I can not remember not having a computer at home.


Wetzel

[evulish]

Ehm...well, there's a difference. The first one means that PCs are personal computers and there is nothing else that can be considered a PC/personal computer. The third one means that PCs are in the category 'personal computers' along with other things. At least that's how I take it. Also, I probably switched the first and third ones around, but I think my point gets across. (The polls aren't shown in the thread view thing below reply, d'oh!)

[robot180]

I agree that it depends on what you are talking about. There are lots of computer terminology like that. For example, what is the definition of a home page? Here are a few that I can think of.

the main page of a website

the index file of a website (sometimes different than main page)

the page set to load when you connect to the internet, or open your browser

the opening page/main menu of a game or program

the computer's desktop (in Windows)

There are probably more.

[KenWittlief]

wow, I can think of so many acronyms for what 'PC' stands for

but none that I can put on this forum.

Words dont have meaning, only people have meaning - words are an attempt to communicate

so words only mean what we agree beforehand that they mean

therefore, there is no right answer to the question - but the best answer is that when you goto a computer store, they sell SW for PCs and for Macs.

[rbayer]

I definately agree with the sentence “Not all Personal computers are PCS, but all PCS are Personal computers,” but I had absolutely no idea what to vote for in the poll. To fully agree with the sentence, I'd have to vote for both choice one and choice two, but I can't do that, so I just stuck with the second option.