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		wumpus on July 18, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: An app for M1 Macs that plays the sound of a fan a... > PC originally meant "IBM PC desktop clone". You're misremembering history. It eventually evolved into that, yes. Apple didn't really buy into that until the "I'm a Mac/I'm a PC" ads.

eyelidlessness on July 18, 2021 [–]

And even then they still used the PowerPC chips and branding.

wumpus on July 18, 2021 | [–]

Yep! Never thought about it that way, but indeed, PowerPC was a smaller not-server chip intended for personal computers.

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