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I sacrificed a perfect score in an IT test at school in the 90s over this sort of nonsense. Our IT teacher was adamant that a CPU was the base unit of a compute
by petercooper 7y ago
I sacrificed a perfect score in an IT test at school in the 90s over this sort of nonsense. Our IT teacher was adamant that a CPU was the base unit of a computer (terminology from the mainframe era) rather than the processor within it (as in the modern era). I refused to kowtow to the nonsense and took the red mark :-D
- AnimalMuppet 7y agoThat seems like a rather meaningless choice of a hill to die on. Even in the 90s, many of us called the chips CPU chips.
- petercooper 7y agoSure, but it's just a single mark, which is a more than cheap enough price for the principle :-)
- sly010 7y agoExactly the same thing happened to me. In fact I came here to write down the same thing :) The test was standardized across the entire country. My IT teacher agreed with me, but was not willing to escalate.