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mc32
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Janet Jackson had the power to crash laptop comput...
Yes but that was like 40 years ago. I think by now the phraseology should reflect reality after about forty years.
theandrewbailey
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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).
jacquesm
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How many horsepower does your car have?
arcanemachiner
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Ironically, I only started hearing the term being used in the past decade, as a colloquial alternative to solid-state storage.
seanhandley
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“Phraseology” is subtly different.
You mean “vocabulary”, “terminology”, possibly “nomenclature”.
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