> who still called hard drive space "memory" I mean, “memory” in the computer sense is by analogy t memory in the brain sense, which is used for both short and

> who still called hard drive space "memory" I mean, “memory” in the computer sense is by analogy t memory in the brain sense, which is used for both short and long term storage (and I’d argue more commonly for long term storage). It therefore doesn’t seem unreasonable to me for people to call a computers long term storage it’s “memory”. The function of a hard drive is to remember things.