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). Richard Mateosian ...ucbvax!ucbiris!srm 2919 Forest Avenue 415/540-7745 srm@iris.Berkeley.EDU Berkeley, CA 94705