IIRC, as the story goes the folks who designed IBM's SNA (Systems Network Architecture) went out of their way in order to come up with a whole new set of techni

IIRC, as the story goes the folks who designed IBM's SNA (Systems Network Architecture) went out of their way in order to come up with a whole new set of technical jargon for that. I don't remember why, though. BTW, I've been around long enough to have had conversations like the following: Them: "I want to run Lotus 1-2-3." (This was the near-universal spreadsheet standard before Microsoft Excel came along.) Me: "OK, then first we're going to have to get you a PC." Them: "What's a PC?" Then I would have to explain that this was a "Personal Computer". And not just any personal computer, either, but rather an "IBM" PC, in order to distinguish it from an Apple or Commodore or TRS-80 or TI-99/4A or Atari or whatever. And they might respond that they didn't even know that IBM made personal computers. (Which they don't any longer, of course.)