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"IBM Personal Computer" es el nombre. Pero solo Personal Computer (PC) es Dell, compaq, apple etc etc...
La verdad es que no, trata de no quedarte en la superficie de la cuestion, en el significado literal, ahi lo dice claramente:
The term "personal computer" was common currency before 1981, and was used as early as 1972 to characterize Xerox PARC's Alto. However, because of the success of the IBM PC, what had been a generic term came to mean specifically a microcomputer compatible with IBM's specification.