personal computer
ඉංග්රීසි
[සංස්කරණය]
නිරුක්තිය
[සංස්කරණය]Often attributed to Stewart Brand (1974), but in use before (see quotations).
උච්චාරණය
[සංස්කරණය]නාම පදය
[සංස්කරණය]personal computer (බහුවචන personal computers)
- (dated) පෞද්ගලික පරිගණකය
- Synonym: PC
- Near-synonyms: desktop computer, microcomputer
- Hyponyms: laptop computer, home computer
- Coordinate terms: mainframe, minicomputer, workstation
- 1962 නොවැම්බර් 3, John Mauchly, quotee, “Pocket Computer May Replace Shopping List”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
- “There is no reason to suppose the average boy or girl cannot be master of a personal computer,” he said.
- (මෙම quotation සඳහා වන සිංහල පරිවර්තනය එක් කිරීමට කාරුණික වන්න)
- 1974, Stewart Brand, II Cybernetic Frontiers, New York: Random House, →ISBN, page 88:
- Meanwhile the research center is nifty as ever. Virtuoso Peter Deutsch is working on interactive systems for secretaries. They're part way along on the Dynabook fantasy with a working personal computer the size of a breadbox.
- (මෙම quotation සඳහා වන සිංහල පරිවර්තනය එක් කිරීමට කාරුණික වන්න)
- 1984, InfoWorld, volume 6, number 13, page 13:
- Morse did confirm that the Amiga personal computer will have 128K of random-access memory (RAM) and a single 5¼-inch disk drive with 320K storage.
- (මෙම quotation සඳහා වන සිංහල පරිවර්තනය එක් කිරීමට කාරුණික වන්න)
- (ඓතිහාසික) The IBM Personal Computer.
- (dated) A PC-compatible computer.
- Synonyms: PC clone, IBM PC clone
භාවිත සටහන්
[සංස්කරණය]Originally, the term personal computer was broadly applied to a broad spectrum of computers for personal use (including for example the Apple II), distinguishing such computers from mainframes and specialized microcomputers (such as those designed primarily for electronic games or controlling equipment). From the launch of the IBM Personal Computer in the early 1980s, the term became more often used specifically in subsense 1.1, and by the end of the 1980s, in subsense 1.2, in particular its acronym PC.
Since then, sense 1.2 has become even much vaguer with the evolution of hardware and software. The term personal computer is often used for desktop computers or non-dedicated servers that may run multi-user software and be accessed by more than one person (for example: via a local area network). In the previous decades, the appearance of numerous models (and types) of computers and the 2 subsenses has made this term polysemous and vaguer, causing more precise terms (such as desktop, laptop, home computer, Linux workstation) or term combinations to be often preferred nowadays.