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CHAT: memory (formerlyRe: To Dialog or Not To Dialog)
Subject:CHAT: memory (formerlyRe: To Dialog or Not To Dialog) From:David Ibbetson <ibbetson -at- IDIRECT -dot- COM> Date:Sat, 6 Apr 1996 11:24:14 -0500
John Posada wants to call hard-disc "storage" rather than "memory".
What single word do techwhirlers use for all levels from cache through
CD-roms in a juke-box to manually-mounted magnetic tapes?
Some people use computer terminology to refer to biological brains. In such
contexts books are also memory. Come to think of it, what about OCR?
I can't accept that the type/speed of a particular memory-type is always
relevant. It depends on the audience and the context. A distinction might be
made between memories whose contents can be used at once and those whose
contents must be transferred to a higher level before they can be used. But
as I implied in my previous message this is implementation-dependent. I've
used a machine with a drum and a handful of registers.
I'm wandering dangerously far from the original topic, hence CHAT.
