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====== PC ======
**See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_computer**
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**PC** stands for **P**ersonal **C**omputer. The phrase was coined by IBM as a name for their [[x86|Intel 8086]] [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Personal_Computer|computer series]]. 

===== What it means to me =====
So what makes a computer personal to me?
  *A **PC** is yours to own, [[permacomputing|intended to last forever]], or as long as the hardware can survive. 
  *You can study every [[operating_system|bit of the code that makes it run.]]
  *You can program it yourself without much effort.
  *One person can understand how it works without any special knowledge other than math and logic, by this I mean not just the [[CPU]] but everything else. Microcomputers of the 80s come to mind. Modern "PC"s don't fit this criteria because they use extremely complicated design models.