PDP-11/44 boot prompt

< personal computer. I would not consider the PDP a personal computer if < I had one because it's not a personal computer. If you used a sedan But, there were versions of the PDP-11 that were marketed as personal computers. I can name not less than three different offering that were desktop, personal, single user computers. < to haul around heavy things, would you call it a truck? No but it was never anything else nor could it be other than a taxi! The problem is the computers were never called trucks or sedans. Small computers that fit on a desk and are generally single user and affordable by the then current standard were "personal computers". Oh, a PC with an eithernet connection to a host is a WORKSTATION and that is a valid use of the term. The very flexibility and usefulness of small (desktop or deskside) computers lent them to many different descriptions, names and uses most overlaping. Allison