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To: Glenn D. Rudolph who wrote (1770)	9/30/2000 3:26:46 AM
From: Libbyt	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 57684

The people you know may not be representative of Apple's market. I'm sure this statement is true. you might want to know that "PC" is an acronym for Personal Computer and a Macintosh is a personal computer. Yes...I am aware of that fact. Anything that is not a mainframe or server is technically a personal computer. A PC specifically references an IBM PC...a marketing term IBM "coined" to try and show people they weren't just about mainframes. The PC part "stuck" and any IBM PC clone is now just referred to as a PC. You will see the term PC used on almost all software....it's either for Mac or PC. These days, the average PC user runs some variant of Windows, but increasingly people are starting to use alternative operating systems like Linux or BeOS and thus the term "for PC" no longer suffices. The term "for PC's with Windows" has become the new buzz-phrase. By the way, I do not own Apple stock. I'm glad you don't own Apple stock, and IMO the sell off in the share price of Apple's stock was extreme, and unwarranted by this market. I am sorry for anyone who lost money today with this stock...either a "real loss" or a "paper loss". Apple has its very loyal customers, and they obviously can count you among the group of loyal users!