From: utzoo!watmath!rggoebel Newsgroups: net.nlang Title: abusive language and core Article-I.D.: watmath.4655 Posted: Tue Mar 1 09:22:54 1983 Received: Wed Mar 2 01:02:25 1983 References: sbcs.212 I am in complete agreement with Steve Sutphen from Alberta. I do not let my students use "core" to refer to mainstore, and "memory" is also frowned on. When we have bistable optical devices (See IEEE Spectrum, June 18) will we still use "core" or will we then refer to "running out of mirrors?" Randy Goebel U. of Waterloo