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minus-squarezagaberoo@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up5·9 months agoThere’s a bit more subtlety to it than that. The PC architecture that dominates today is a direct descendant of the 1981 IBM Personal Computer, which was made to run DOS and later Wondows. The cultural association makes sense in that context.
minus-squareMadBob@feddit.nllinkfedilinkarrow-up8·9 months agoI know it’s a completely normal typo that anyone could make, but “Wondows” has just made me a laugh for a good few seconds.
minus-squarezagaberoo@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up1·9 months agoThat’s what I get for not using autocorrect 😆
There’s a bit more subtlety to it than that. The PC architecture that dominates today is a direct descendant of the 1981 IBM Personal Computer, which was made to run DOS and later Wondows. The cultural association makes sense in that context.
I know it’s a completely normal typo that anyone could make, but “Wondows” has just made me a laugh for a good few seconds.
That’s what I get for not using autocorrect 😆