Re: How is typical home computer used today?
On 12/12/2014, Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> wrote:
> Lisi Reisz wrote:
>> On Thursday 11 December 2014 14:48:41 Richard Owlett wrote:
>>> The OP correctly phrased the question as "How is typical home
>>> computer used today?"
>>> As I'm the OP, I should know. <GRIN>
>>
>> If we had trouble understanding it, then you did *NOT* correctly phrase
>> the
>> question.
>>
>> And you have *STILL* not said what you mean by typical, which is
>> meaningless.
>>
>> Nor have you said what you mean by a home computer.
>>
>
> typical - definition of typical by The Free Dictionary
> typ·i·cal (t p-k l) adj. 1. Exhibiting the qualities, traits, or
> characteristics that identify a kind, class, group, or category:
> a typical suburban community.
> thefreedictionary.com/typical
>
> Home dictionary definition | home defined
> The definition of home is something that relates to or happens
> inside the place where a person or family resides.
> yourdictionary.com/home
>
Right.
And I had seen at a person's residence, the PDP-11 computer that he
had obtained, and, kept there, and used for for playing with octal
programming.
By your definition, a "home computer".
He lived in a block of flats; "a typical suburban community", as you have cited.
...
Why do you object so strongly, to simply asking the appropriate question?
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Bret Busby
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West Australia
..............
"So once you do know what the question actually is,
you'll know what the answer means."
- Deep Thought,
Chapter 28 of Book 1 of
"The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:
A Trilogy In Four Parts",
written by Douglas Adams,
published by Pan Books, 1992
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