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It's humorous exaggeration/misstatement with a wink. The same way people often refer to hard disks as "spinning rust".
by dgacmu 7y ago
It's humorous exaggeration/misstatement with a wink. The same way people often refer to hard disks as "spinning rust".
- chongli 7y agoI appreciate that, though I still feel that a lot of people mistake glass for crystal and vice versa.
- mrob 7y agoExcept old hard disks really did use iron oxide as the magnetic storage material. Semiconductors were never made from glass.
- Junk_Collector 7y agoOxygen doped silicon isn't necessarily the same thing as glass but it's not entirely far off either and has been used in semi-conductors. Actual Glass layers are also a major component in transistor and IC design, so I don't feel like this is any more stretched than the rust comment.