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mc32
181 days ago
Yes but that was like 40 years ago. I think by now the phraseology should reflect reality after about forty years.
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theandrewbailey
181 days ago
We still talk about "bugs" (99+% of computer defects in the past 70+ years have not been caused by insects) and "AJAX" (long after most of these requests use JSON instead of XML).
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jacquesm
181 days ago
How many horsepower does your car have?
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arcanemachiner
181 days ago
Ironically, I only started hearing the term being used in the past decade, as a colloquial alternative to solid-state storage.
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seanhandley
181 days ago
“Phraseology” is subtly different.
You mean “vocabulary”, “terminology”, possibly “nomenclature”.
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