PC Tips for Mainframe Nerds ... nyuk,nyuk

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14. ROM is not......what is ROM, anyway?

The IBM official mainframe term from the 60s was ROS -- Read Only
Storage.  IBM did not think that the anthropomorphic term "memory" was
good marketing style, as it made to computer too threatening by being
like a person.

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