31 Aug
2006
31 Aug
'06
9:56 a.m.
At 11:37 AM 8/31/2006, you wrote:
Well, there's the old (1990?) MS document on what a
"Windows PC" is that
might serve as a more up-to-date reference for 386-and-above class
machines.
I think there are moments in this endless debate where some argue for
a definition that actually means "sufficiently obscure." It's always
the Windows machine that centers the debate. Never, say, the Newton.
Yet many details of pre-1995 computers will seem obscure to many
other people, people who don't own troubleshooting manuals from that
era, who didn't ever learn how to set up Kermit or TCP/IP or NFS on old
DOS or Windows machines, or Windows for Workgroups, or Win32s, etc.
Those people will find this list and ask questions, even without
understanding any list rule (that doesn't exist.)
- John