4 Nov
2015
4 Nov
'15
9:37 a.m.
On 11/04/2015 10:42 AM, Fred Cisin wrote:
On Tue, 3 Nov 2015, Chuck Guzis wrote:
But, IBM had a WHOLE dictionary full of IBM-specific terms
for everything.
memory was storage (or main storage)
disks were direct access storage devices (DASD)
tapes were sequential access
the register set of the 360 was local store (or local storage)
microcode was in control store
and, there is a LOT more of this that escapes me at the moment.
Jon
Cool. How about "label" versus VTOC
versus "folder"
versus "directory" versus "FNT"...versus...?
So many names...
Was it considered "copyright infringement" to use the same
terminology as somebody else? Like "standards" everybody
had a unique one of their own.