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English Dictionary: Personal Computer by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
personal computer
n
  1. a small digital computer based on a microprocessor and designed to be used by one person at a time
    Synonym(s): personal computer, PC, microcomputer
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   personal computer
  
      (PC) A general-purpose single-user {microcomputer}
      designed to be operated by one person at a time.
  
      This term and the concept has been successfully hijacked by
      {IBM} due to the huge market share of the {IBM PC}, despite
      its many obvious weaknesses when compared to other equally
      valid claimants to the term, e.g. the {Acorn} {Archimedes},
      {Amiga}, {Atari}, {Macintosh}.
  
      (1994-11-02)
  
  
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