Hardware Why is windows called "PC"?

[Sonic Angel Knight]

Is probably nothing worth discussing but I found this when trying to download the discord app. Obviously is WINDOWS, see, the logo. WINDOWS. Why is it called PC? It stands for Personal Computer right? So when did PC become short for windows?

 

[iAqua]

Is probably nothing worth discussing but I found this when trying to download the discord app. Obviously is WINDOWS, see, the logo. WINDOWS. Why is it called PC? It stands for Personal Computer right? So when did PC become short for windows?

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I don't know, maybe because it's usually just assumed when people say PC that it's windows.

 

[the_randomizer]

If it has an OS, it's a PC.

 

[Stephano]

I know why Mac isn't called a PC....

Because you are locked into the crap they crap they give you not allowing their users to customize it at all as well as not allowing a lot of mac programs to run unless you jump through some hoops to allow the program to run at all.....

Linux should be referred to as a PC though

 

[DinohScene]

Cause the majority of the Internet users these days are dumb shites.

Why does everybody call softmodding/hacking, Jailbreaking.
It's pretty much the same question lol.

 

[Pedeadstrian]

You're right, this was nothing worth discussing.

 

[FireEmblemGuy]

It's because of how liberal and 'correct' Bill Gates is, duh.

 

[Stephano]

Cause the majority of the Internet users these days are dumb shites.

Why does everybody call softmodding/hacking, Jailbreaking.
It's pretty much the same question lol.

Well what is the proper term? I've never liked the term jailbreaking. It should only be used with the IOS community and stay there. Those 12 year olds wanting free games probably can't tell the difference between a softmod and a hardmod. Heck, I've offered to help people hack/mod their consoles, but as soon as i get technical over the things they have to do, (Jock voice) "Ya, that's way to hard to do lol. Can you just put some files on a USB or something bruh? Why don't people make mods like that, i mean come one man!"

 

[frogboy]

Why does everybody call softmodding/hacking, Jailbreaking.

i'd say this is the one that bothers me the most, not sure why though. got big with the iphone and then suddenly people want to "jailbreak" their ps4

 

[VinsCool]

Because a vast majority of computer illiterates associate PC with Microsoft Windows. They don't know What a MAC is, or what Linux stands for.

 

[Kioku]

I actually created a status about this particular non-issue before..

It's just convenient. I don't know how, and I don't know when it became the norm to associate Windows (OS) with PC (Hardware)... PC literally stands for Personal Computer. It's not a slang term... It's just laziness to associate it that way.

 

[DinohScene]

Well what is the proper term? I've never liked the term jailbreaking. It should only be used with the IOS community and stay there. Those 12 year olds wanting free games probably can't tell the difference between a softmod and a hardmod. Heck, I've offered to help people hack/mod their consoles, but as soon as i get technical over the things they have to do, (Jock voice) "Ya, that's way to hard to do lol. Can you just put some files on a USB or something bruh? Why don't people make mods like that, i mean come one man!"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privilege_escalation#Jailbreaking

Basically, jailbreaking is literally breaking out of chroot in a Unix like enviroment.
Installing a softmod isn't jailbreaking.
Hacking a 3DS isn't jailbreaking.
Running unsigned code on IOS devices is jailbreaking.

i'd say this is the one that bothers me the most, not sure why though. got big with the iphone and then suddenly people want to "jailbreak" their ps4

I think it's idiotic as well.

 

[Stephano]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privilege_escalation#Jailbreaking

Basically, jailbreaking is literally breaking out of chroot in a Unix like enviroment.
Installing a softmod isn't jailbreaking.
Hacking a 3DS isn't jailbreaking.
Running unsigned code on IOS devices is jailbreaking.



I think it's idiotic as well.

Huh, the more you know.

 

[DinohScene]

Huh, the more you know.

I guess you can blame the illiterate facebook users for it.
They heard from some guy who jailbreaked a 3DS.
So they assume that everything "hacky" is jailbreaking.

Oh and youtube.
In fact, social media is the blame for the spreading of ill informed "knowledge"

 

[Stephano]

I guess you can blame the illiterate facebook users for it.
They heard from some guy who jailbreaked a 3DS.
So they assume that everything "hacky" is jailbreaking.

Alright i did some "research" on youtube
3DS - People use homebrew and hack quite a bit
PS3 - JAILBREAK JAILBREAK JAILBREAK....
Xbox 360 - I saw a few jailbreaks. most of them seemed like little kids
Wii - Quite a few "jailbreak" videos, not as many as PS3 though

and that is as much autism as i can stomach right now.

 

[Myria]

"PC" is named for the IBM "Personal Computer", released in 1981. Microsoft modified an OS called "DOS" to work on the 8088-based hardware architecture that IBM had designed.

Clones of the IBM PC made by other manufacturers soon came out that were capable of running PC applications and MS-DOS. This led to the ubiquity of the platform.

Microsoft wrote a graphical interface called Windows in 1985. It ran on top of MS-DOS. This version of Windows eventually became Windows 95 and Windows Me. It came to dominate PCs, being run on the vast majority.

Microsoft rewrote Windows in 1993 and called it Windows NT. NT was a wholly new operating system, and didn't run on top of MS-DOS. NT was initially designed for business workstation environments, as it supported security and integrated networking. The Windows 95/98/Me line continued to be used for home users for some time.

In 2001, Microsoft released Windows XP. XP moved home users onto Windows NT; XP is NT 5.1. Windows 10 is the newest version of Windows NT.

Because pretty much all PCs used Windows, "PC" became associated with Windows. Most Linux machines run on what are identical hardware to PCs that run Windows, so really, Linux should also be called PC. But marketers don't see it that way. (Even modern Macs are basically PCs.)

 

[3DSPoet]

When household computers became "a thing", Apple computers were not household computers..they were strictly for business/education (mostly the latter). So when people bought computers, they bought a MS-DOS based system, which was referred to as "Personal Computer" to differentiate it from a business or education computer.

As things have progressed, Macs have become more common, but since comparing a Microsoft-Powered computer to an Apple-Powered computer is only slightly less of a thing than comparing apples to oranges....well, the designation just stuck. Same reason most people don't refer to Linux-based systems as PCs, but usually call it a Linux "box"...just a designation people used that stuck.

 

[Gizametalman]

Because Illuminati.
Don't know, but who cares? As long as you know what it means, no?
I've asked the same question before.

 

[FireEmblemGuy]

Don't forget, too, that it's only the last decade or so that's seen OSX switch back to what we'd consider "traditional" x86 PC architecture, rather than the PowerPC-based platform they were using prior. And it's really only over the last ten to fifteen years that Linux has moved from near-exclusivity as a server/hobbyist OS into an operating system that 'normal' people might use, despite the availability of 'PC-like' desktop environments. It wasn't always a given that a Mac or Linux device would function like a PC.

 

[hobbledehoy899]

Because they're racist towards penguins.