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Subject:Re: To Dialog or Not To Dialog From:Kris Olberg <kjolberg -at- IX -dot- NETCOM -dot- COM> Date:Fri, 5 Apr 1996 11:38:34 -0800
At 02:33 PM 4/3/96 MST, you wrote:
>I bet we all know a few people who still refer to the hard disk
>as "memory." I know several, and some are computer
>professionals {{shudder}}. It's a clear case of being taught
>the incorrect term--probably for simplicity's sake--in the
>beginning.
But it is memory.
If you're trying to communicate something about RAM, you should use RAM, not
memory. For example, "The TSR stays dormant in RAM until you hit Alt+A to
make it active."
Similarly for hard drive.
But if it doesn't matter where the storage location is, what's wrong with
memory? For example, "The information is stored in memory for use later on."
Here, I'm trying to communicate that the information is retained, and it
doesn't matter to the reader which storage location is used.
Regards...Kris
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