From: Ad 

Rich wrote:
>    Nonsense.  You often include earlier messages in threads.  You are
> selective when you do or don't.  It appears that you don't when it
> reflects poorly on you.
>

Rubbish. Making stuff up as usual to divert. Do smartphones worry you &
your employer that much?


>    I/O also differentiates between a phone and a PC so what is your point?
>

Not that much.


>    My dumb
remote control that came with my TV has a general purpose
> CPU.  Is that a PC too?  I think not.  Form factor makes a significant
> difference just like I/O capability and capacity.
>

Indeed & now smartphones are getting the IO & capacity of PC'es of
only a few years ago & then you oddly didn't have a problem with
calling machines of that capacity PC'es.

How odd.

Gee my phone has 2gb persistent storage. It took years & years of PC
ownership before I got a machine with 2gb of persistent storage.

Adam


> Rich
>
>
>     "Ad"      > wrote in message
>     news:46516530{at}w3.nls.net...
>     Rich wrote:
>      >    You made comparison on CPU power which you edited out of this
>     message
>      > maybe to hide that.
>
>     Rubbish. I just dislike massive quotebacks as most people assume that
>     threading is there for that vs having the entire thread in each post.
>
>     I did make a comparison on CPU power but CPU power is not what makes a
>     mainframe where instead it's stuff like IO etc.
>
>     I'd hate to assume you know something as basic as that though however
>     one wonders why you used a mainframe if you were simply talking about
>     CPU power.
>
>      > That comparison is bogus just as much for PCs as it
>      > is for mainframes.
>      >
>
>     Rubbish. A GPCPU is a GPCPU. The form factor changes nothing.
>
>     Do you have a CPU, RAM & persistent storage? If so what is the speed of
>     the system as a whole?
>
>
>
>      >    Now you are trying to make a silly comparison over how or when
>     folks
>      > use the term "computer".  To point out how silly
this is, I have
>     been
>      > told that my personal car has a number of
"computers" in it.  What
>      > rediculous claims do you want to make about that?
>      >
>
>     Depends on what they do. I have a friend who has installed a
>     computer in
>     his car which plays films, MP3 etc. I believe it's a small cold running
>     via cpu based device & currently runs linux but could run an obscure
>     operating system called "Windows" & is accessed
through either a
>     touchscreen &/or a bluetooth keyboard.
>
>
>     I suppose that since it can run "Windows" it should be
discounted as
>     being a computer & instead be classified as an "entertainment
>     device" or
>     possibly "electronic toy".
>
>
>     Adam

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