Changing meanings of words

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From: Richard Mateosian
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 1986 05:56

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>>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

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