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I didn't know they used to call computers "ordenadores" in Portugal. Interesting.
by zorked 2y ago
I didn't know they used to call computers "ordenadores" in Portugal. Interesting.
- jgrahamc 2y agoThey appear to have in this book, but computadores seems to have taken over.
- madaxe_again 2y agoOrdinateur in French, still.
- nsbk 2y agoOrdenador in Spanish, still.
- pedroaniceto 2y ago'till the 80's, french was the computer dominating language. Terms like "Octeto" (portuguese for byte) were derived from french glossary (tehy had laws to prevent the english tech term colonization and still today they have a french word for every english counterpart). So, "Ordenadores" was pretty common. And before electronics took over, we had "Electrológica", refering mixed hardware like Burroughs or Gestetner.
- titanomachy 2y agoEnglish-speaking programmers still say "octet" for byte sometimes, for example when talking about IP addresses.
- jdblair 2y agoThe term "octet" is used in IETF documentation (for IP addresses, for example) to be specific that the byte is 8 bits in length. Historically the size of a "byte" on a system was machine-dependent. The industry coalesced around the 8-bit byte, and differentiated it from "machine word" in the 70s and 80s. Edit: I just checked wikipedia, and this is described there: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte
- toast0 2y agoLike the sibling says, octet is useful when in a networking context, because bytes weren't uniformly sized, but also because communications protocols were sometimes only 7-bit. Serial ports and modems often operated in that mode, and UUCP influenced mail and newsgroups to only use 7-bit data; requiring encoding for data with the high bit set. Protocols that specify octets are dealing with 8-bit bytes and don't have to deal with that.
- hammock 2y agoSpain and France as well. Computadora was a Latin American thing
- forinti 2y agoIn Brazil the vocabulary changed a lot from the 80s onward too. I was used to reading everything in English, so Brazilian computer books and magazines would always read strange to me. Then in the 90s everything just moved to American vocabulary. The strangest word I recall in this context is the use of "alça" for handle.
- zorked 2y agoBrazil had a bad problem with technical books being translated by generalist translators who just looked up the word in the dictionary and used the first translation they saw. So many translations are extremely hard to read because of that.
- rcarmo 2y agoYep. The literal translation for "edge-triggered flip-flop" still stands as one of the weirdest, most bizarre things I ever read as a Continental Portuguese student. Never read another Brazilian technical translation ever agin.