> I gave up this fight years ago when I saw a high-school Comp Sci
> textbook that labelled the computer as a CPU. This wasn't just an
> incidental label, either. It was a page that was teaching the names of
> all the parts.
I'm perfectly fine with them using CPU to refer to the entire
computer. But in my mind, that means it doesn't stand for "Central
Processing Unit" any more.
If you spell it out, its means you're trying to be clear that you're
only referring to the processor.
Received on Sat Jan 20 11:33:04 2007
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