John Gilmore wrote: >When I began in this business "storage" mean only auxiliary|backing storage. >Main storage was "memory", a usage that is certainly not obsolete and is >preserved in acronyms like DRAM.
What about the little cute, but dated, word 'core'? And you perhaps know the phrase 'core dump'? ;-D http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic-core_memory http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core_dump >If you want to know what a word or phrase means|meant with any precision you >must associate a time and a place|dialect with your query. Ah yes, for example, 'core' is now AFAIK dated. Some people are [still] refering to 'tape' when talking about cartridge (3490, Magstar). Should VTS (Virtual Tape System) not be VCS (Virtual Cartridge System)? ;-D :-D ;-D :-D Groete / Greetings Elardus Engelbrecht ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
