Grant Edwards wrote:
The file containing the list of coordinates generated by a CAD program for holes in a circuit board is still often referred to as a "drill tape".
Yep, and we talk about "core" memory, use a "tape archive" program to produce compressed files, and have "drives" with no moving parts. Terminological fossils abound! (When I first heard the term "core" used to refer to RAM, I thought it just meant that it was a central part of the machine... until I realised it was actually talking about those little magnetic doughnuts!) (And I suppose a "core dump" is what would happen if any of the fragile little wires broke...) -- Greg -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
