On 5 Apr 2010 at 18:56, Tony Duell wrote:
Nor have I. I wonder if this is an IBM .vs. the rest
of the world
thing. IBM had their own terms for a lot of things (PEL rather than
Pixel, All Points Addressable mode rather htan Bitmaped mode, Planar
board rather than motehrboard, Module rather than integrated circuit,
and so on).
Part of going to work for a company of that era was learning the
vocabulary for things you were already familiar with. CDC RMS = IBM
DASD = most everyone else "disk". CDC "label" = IBM "VTOC",
which
end of a word was "bit 0", etc.
--Chuck