schaut@cat9.cs.wisc.edu (Rick Schaut) (03/22/90)
In article <1990Mar16.211009.9563@comm.WANG.COM> lws@comm.WANG.COM (Lyle Seaman) writes: | Now that PCs are going multi-user, when are we | going to dump the PC moniker, and start referring to these as simply | microcomputers (slightly more accurate)? When people can type the word "microcomputer" using the same number of keystrokes as they can use to type "PC". Actually, I favor the term "workstation" myself, but I also recognize the futility of trying to promote the use of such terms in an industry where rule #1 is "never use a real word when a neat little acronym can be found." -- Rick (schaut@garfield.cs.wisc.edu) "I'm a theory geek; we use Turing machines!"--Gary Lewandowski