Terminology




"PC" is an initialism for "personal computer". The IBM Personal Computer incorporated the designation in its model name, but the term evolved to refer to computers of any brand. In some contexts, "PC" is used to differentiate contrast with "Mac", an Apple Macintosh computer. Since none of these Apple products were mainframes or time-sharing systems, they were all "personal computers" and not "PC" (brand) computers.

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