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It sounds way less offensive to those who decry the original terminology's problematic roots but still keeps its meaning intact.

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[-] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 26 points 4 months ago

No we need to replace all industry standard terminology and acronyms every few years or so to keep datasheets unintelligible. Shop teachers need to be able to call their students stupid for not knowing that "tension" used to mean "voltage" 90 years ago.

[-] VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

It still bugs me that the old drive connections are called PATA now and not IDE.

[-] sandbox@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago

They always were PATA, IDE was always the wrong term to use, but it was commonly used anyways. SATA drives are also IDE drives. It’s not really a useful term anymore because we don’t use separate daughter boards for hard drives anymore.

[-] BCsven@lemmy.ca 3 points 4 months ago

Like new coke, so then we got coke classic

[-] maniii@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

Yes PATA IDE was the full old term. Now we have SATA ( SCSI ? or IDE? i dont remember ) .

PATA = Parallel - ATA SATA = Serial - ATA

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