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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[–] 26 points 2 years ago (4 children)

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.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (3 children)

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

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years 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.

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