On Fri, 15 Aug 2014 09:09:04 -0500, Elardus Engelbrecht wrote: > >>This community is full of instinctually risk averse, conservative people who >>cherish and defend the old and are reluctant to master new technology, often >>long after it has ceased to be at all new. This propensity is stubborn and >>hard to change, but it should be discouraged where it can be, and terminology >>that obliterates substantive distinctions is not helpful in doing so. > >Agreed! Some of the reasons of this 'stubborness' are: Difficult migration to >new technology (hardware, software, etc), Backward compatibility, Costs, >Politics, Unavailability of training, etc. > >About terminology: how do you explain the term 'IPL' to people who only >understand 'boot', 'bootstrap', 'reboot', etc? > Look on the bright side. "memory" is gradually supplanting some uses of "storage".
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