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convo By karimtemple on 5/31/2013 4:03:23 PM , Rating: 2 1) All
your thought experiment seems to demonstrate is that, one: the
"personal" in personal computer doesn't refer to the fact that
the computer is assigned to one person, and two: whatever it
does refer to is something your VAX 780 and a desktop don't have
in common. This actually doesn't mean that the commonality in
question is not shared between a tablet and a desktop.  2) What
we're talking about here are form factors. A PC is a PC because
the form factor is suitable for every person having one. A VAX
780 is not suitable for every person having one, and it's
therefore not a PC. A desktop is. A laptop is. A tablet is.
They're PCs.  Interestingly, software actually plays a factor in
the "class" of computer too. Hardware is kind of simple because
it's more like a container -- You have hard limits on how much
it can hold and what