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<CAE1XxDEwwmB66cYRBTYk5V=r=oojk6hjgrtq20oo+aybakg...@mail.gmail.com>,
on 11/26/2012
at 11:24 AM, John Gilmore <jwgli...@gmail.com> said:
>When I began in this business "storage" mean only auxiliary|backing
>storage. Main storage was "memory",
No. IBM was using the word "storage" for main memory in the 1950's, as
was UNIVAC. The nomenclature changed between vendors at the same date,
not as a function of time. A similar situation existed with
"biquinary".
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
Atid/2 <http://patriot.net/~shmuel>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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