Lan Barnes wrote:
BTW, I fully expect and will not respond to the usual avalanche of "but
it's all right (or "alright") because language changes and that's what _I_
say." Sure sure. Tell me about it the next time you correct some Joe
Sixpack who calls his hard drive capacity "memory."

Splitting hairs, it is memory, random access memory even, to a degree. And it remembers things even when the puter is switched off.

And it is the media of swap.

I tell Joe Sixpack, Yes, it is slow, storage memory, but not fast, active memory.



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Ralph

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It is a damn poor mind indeed which can't think of at least two ways to spell any word.
--Andrew Jackson


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