[HN Gopher] Bog-Standard Multimedia:Why PC industry standardized...
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       Bog-Standard Multimedia:Why PC industry standardized on multimedia
       in the 90s
        
       Author : jslakro
       Score  : 11 points
       Date   : 2021-09-09 07:54 UTC (15 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (tedium.co)
 (TXT) w3m dump (tedium.co)
        
       | brundolf wrote:
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         | slapfrog wrote:
         | Calling the whole computer "the CPU" was very common in the
         | 90s. I believe the author of the article deliberately misused
         | the term to invoke 90s vibes and moods.
         | 
         | Edit: Also common at the time was calling monitors "the
         | computer".
         | 
         | If I had to guess, Intel's marketing department played a
         | significant role in quashing the misuse of 'CPU', with their
         | "Intel Inside" stickers and marketing. "Intel Inside" got
         | people to understand that an Intel CPU was something that
         | existed _inside_ their computer, and was not the computer
         | itself. The general public gradually became aware that their
         | computer was  "a dell" and inside it somewhere was an Intel
         | CPU.
        
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           | jhgb wrote:
           | > Calling the whole computer "the CPU" was very common in the
           | 90s.
           | 
           | The author was clearly used to working with minicomputers.
        
         | blendergeek wrote:
         | > I hate to be that guy
         | 
         | Then don't be that guy. Hacker News discourages nitpicking a
         | single thing from the article in the comments.
        
           | [deleted]
        
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