Re: How is typical home computer used today?

[seeker5528 <seeker5528@comcast.net>]

On 12/10/2014 11:22 PM, Bret Busby wrote:
> I make the point that the term is a malapropism. Not that it is
> invalid. A car central computer, which performs functions like heating
> the seats, and, determining which seats are occupied, to illuminate
> "seatbelt not fastened on seat <position indicator>", are "multi-seat
> computers" ; computers that do not include, provide, or, service,
> seating, or, otherwise, interface directly, with the things upon which
> people sit, are, surely not correctly to be named, "multi-seat
> computers", are they?
>
> Hence, is the term, in the context that it has been otherwise used in
> this thread, to refer instead, to multi-user computers, not a
> malapropism?
Was the term misused earlier in the thread?

Multiseat computer refers to a specific type of set up....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiseat_configurationhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiseat_configuration

In the same way that all cars are automobiles, but not all automobiles 
are cars.
All multiseat computers are multiuser, but not all multiuser computers 
are multiseat.

Later, Seeker