[net.arch] Changing meanings of words

srm@iris.berkeley.edu (Richard Mateosian) (10/15/86)

>>The meanings of words are defined by how they are used, not by how they
>>used to be used.

>Quite so.  I remember when 'hacker' was a derogatory term.  I still use
>it that way, but no one else seems to.

I remember when 'mainframe' meant 'the computer' (as opposed to the tape
unit or the card reader or the I/O channel -- other big gray boxes in the
computer room). 

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