< computer > (PC) A general-purpose single-user microcomputer designed to be operated by one person at a time.
This term and the concept has been successfully hijacked by IBM due to the huge market share of the IBM PC , despite its many obvious weaknesses when compared to other equally valid claimants to the term, e.g. the Acorn Archimedes , Amiga , Atari , Macintosh .
(1994-11-02)