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• blendergeek 5y ago
  > I hate to be that guy Then don't be that guy. Hacker News discourages nitpicking a single thing from the article in the comments.
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• slapfrog 5y ago
  Calling the whole computer "the CPU" was very common in the 90s. I believe the author of the article deliberately misused the term to invoke 90s vibes and moods. Edit: Also common at the time was calling monitors "the computer". If I had to guess, Intel's marketing department played a significant role in quashing the misuse of 'CPU', with their "Intel Inside" stickers and marketing. "Intel Inside" got people to understand that an Intel CPU was something that existed inside their computer, and was not the computer itself. The general public gradually became aware that their computer was "a dell" and inside it somewhere was an Intel CPU.
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  • jhgb 5y ago
    > Calling the whole computer "the CPU" was very common in the 90s. The author was clearly used to working with minicomputers.