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Yes but that was like 40 years ago. I think by now the phraseology should reflect reality after about forty years.


We still talk about "bugs" (99+% of computer defects in the past 70+ years have not been caused by insects) and "AJAX" (long after most of these requests use JSON instead of XML).


How many horsepower does your car have?


Ironically, I only started hearing the term being used in the past decade, as a colloquial alternative to solid-state storage.


“Phraseology” is subtly different.

You mean “vocabulary”, “terminology”, possibly “nomenclature”.




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