Re: Very simple
"Do you still refer to your desktop as a microcomputer?"
Not generally. Not important. It's a personal computer; its actual internal makeup isn't important to me in most contexts.
"And who actually talks about minicomputers these days?"
I do if my conversation is in a context where the difference matters. But hardly anybody uses them any more.
"Language changes. Especially in the technology field. Why would you think a definition made 25 years ago holds any weight today?"
True dat, though plenty of words only 25 years old mean the same thing they did then. Even the ones that look different. (The chain printer on the IBM 360 at university looks -- and sounds -- a heckuva lot different from the inkjet on my desk, but you'd recognize both as "computer printers".) OTOH, "computer" used to mean a person who specialized in doing rapid calculations. More than 25 years ago, though. :)
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