In symbolic logic, it is used to represent or.. = The equals sign. This is one of several symbols that can be used to mean equals or equivalence. Some fields of math make a distinction between equal and equivalent, and use different symbols for each.
Henry Edward Roberts, designer of the Altair 8800 Computer, deserves credit as the inventor of the personal computer, Cerruzi asserts. Although calling Roberts the inventor makes sense only in the context of all that came before him . . . he does deserve the credit.. C'mon IBM, have a heart.
If anything, it would be nice if the Mac were seen as a personal computer â in contrast to an impersonal one. Despite its name, the IBM PC was designed for the office, not the home. It was âpersonalâ in that it had its own CPU and wasnât a terminal dependent on a minicomputer for processing power.