I am not sure what purpose is served by obfuscating an ancient piece of terminology that, for most of its life was neither contentious nor really ambiguous.
Terms do, of course, acquire new meanings that cannot be ignored, and in the future I shall call what I have called a base register since 1964 a code-base register (CBR)instead. Fortunately, I find that I need to talk about CBRs less and less because I now use them very little. John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA
