8 Aug
2008
8 Aug
'08
10:55 a.m.
2008/8/7 Fred Cisin <cisin at xenosoft.com>:
On Thu, 7 Aug 2008, Liam Proven wrote:
Hmmm. I'd have said "the keyboard of the classic PC" if that's what
I'd meant. Only of course a Model M is not the keyboard of the PC-XT,
it's a much later model; a Model M won't work with a PC-XT and a PC-XT
keyboard won't work with anything much newer. And in any case, the
original PC keyboard is not a much loved classic with lots of fan
sites, which the Model M is.
So to be honest I don't think it was an ambiguous statement at all!
2008/8/6 Sridhar Ayengar <ploopster at
gmail.com>:
It is easy to parse what you said to be referring to "classic PC". Liam Proven wrote:
Oh, come on, Sridhar, don't be so anally retentive or obsessive!
I didn't say "the classic IBM model 5250 PC-XT keyboard" or anything
of the kind. I said PC. "PC" is a generic term, which to hundreds of
millions around the world just means a Personal Computer. In fact the
PC to which the model M I am typing on right now is attached to is, as
it happens, an Apple 20" 2GH PowerPC G5 iMac.
/The/ classic PC keyboard, IMHO.
The Model M came out *waay* after the PC. The 84-key is the one for the PC.
I don't think the Model M is even compatible with the PC.
Peace... Sridhar Would an Apple 20" 2GH PowerPC G5 iMac be
considered a "classic PC"?
Eh? That never even entered into it. It's a form of PC, though. I
reckon the original iMac G3 is a classic, though, already.
In THIS mob, "classic PC" means 5150.
But I wasn't talking about any kind of classic PC. The last noun in
the sentence was "keyboard" and that's what the adjective
"classic"
was applied to. The "PC" merely clarified what kind of keyboard.
Even those who avoid the IBM products would be
considered "5150" by those
familiar with police radio codes.
I know nothing about police radio codes and have no interest in them
whatsoever. I suspect that the British police have different ones,
anyway.
I'm not buying this odd implicit argument that it was an unclear or
ambiguous phrase, in case that wasn't obvious. :-)
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