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To: antiRepublicrat
They’d be counting it as a PC if it ran Windows.

We've got ATMs that run Windows, but I doubt anyone's going to count them as PC's.

16 posted on 08/23/2010 6:11:23 AM PDT by tacticalogic
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To: tacticalogic

Exactly.
I buy and install handheld RF terminals that run Windows components, but none of them would ever be called a PC.

However, I’ve run PC tablets and they were definitely PCs. Wish they were more capable, though.


24 posted on 08/23/2010 7:05:44 AM PDT by SJSAMPLE
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To: tacticalogic
We've got ATMs that run Windows

Nobody uses ATMs as computers. People use iPads as computers, there's even an office suite available. But as I said, as long as they remain slave devices to computers they can't be called computers in their own right.

28 posted on 08/23/2010 7:35:36 AM PDT by antiRepublicrat
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To: tacticalogic
We've got ATMs that run Windows, but I doubt anyone's going to count them as PC's.

Uh, actually, they DO count those among total PCs sold and shipped.

37 posted on 08/23/2010 11:21:21 AM PDT by Swordmaker (This tag line is a Microsoft product "insult" free zone!)
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