[lpapez]

You are arguing on technicalities. By your logic signals are also exceptions, and so is poking a screwdriver into the RAM port. Makes no sense.

[fulafel]

On hw level, memory access errors and hardware malfunctions are often called exceptions. For example, on x86 the MCE architecture does this.

[pjmlp]

Windows exceptions are the equivalent of UNIX signals.

On hardware level exceptions are a synonym for traps.