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Subject:beige box From:scot <scot -at- HCI -dot- COM -dot- AU> Date:Tue, 13 Jun 1995 16:39:49 +1000
> My mother-in-law calls the beige box the "hard drive," too.
> That seems to be a common approach by people just learning. I
> was taught to call it the CPU. However, the CPU takes up even
I think the term 'cpu' (as applied to the 'beige box') is more derived from
the mainframe/midrange world, where the computer is broken up into many
different boxes, cpu modules (often of course including other components
too, such as memory), disk array, I/O subsystem, communications controller,
and so on.
Why not just call it 'computer', after all, all that is left is the screen,
keyboard, mouse, printer, modem, etc. Sometimes I just refer to it as 'the
box', although I do tend to use 'cpu'. But then I'm a techy.
ciao
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