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Re: Computing Editorial (please read)
In article <MPG.18948ab5fa36ed10989886@news.t-online.de>,
Michael J. Sch�lke <news0212@mjschuelke.de> wrote:
>Ross Simpson wrote:
>
>> However it seemed to last as long as some of the other 8bits, like the C64s,
>> it was still going very nicely 5 years after the machine was introduced
>> (which I might add sprung a newer generation of 8bits around 1990 to compete
>> with the Atari STs & Amigas).
>
>True, but that was just old 8 bit processors finding a new market niche
>(quite a large one, though) in home computing.
>
>Professional microcomputers (what you might call workstations, nowadays)
>used 8 bit processors in the 1975-1982 timeframe; with the appearance of
>machines like the Sun 1 (68000, 1981), they moved on to 16 bits, and the
>personal computing market followed quickly with the Apple Mac and the
>IBM AT.
How do you define "personal computing" here? It's not "home computing"
and it's not "professional computing" -- so what is it?
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