Pasvarstykime naujadarą „atmintynas“
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CONSIDERATIONS, PROPOSALS LET'S CONSIDE NEW DESIGN MEMORY Often, a new term is used suddenly and universally, as if a dam had collapsed. ir This happens when the lack of a term for some time has prevented many people from expressing their thoughts ir concisely and accurately, simply depressing. For example, could we have referred to the means of public information as mass media? The term media immediately came into use. Unfortunately, we often try to do the same thing without much thought, even though we are not so constrained. Ar translator's computer term memory replaced by memory? Stealing. In the Lithuanian language, — atmintinė is just a booklet ar written su with short information about ką something. (Is it intended to completely deny the former meaning of this word, attributiją ng it only to the term remembrance?) Of course, ši the meaning of the term could be slightly modified, supplemented. For example, that would mean ir (temporary) ar notes notebook. Ne I don't ką think so. In computer ir science, the term can only refer to things of similar characteristics, but a huge-capacity main memory device or an even ne larger-capacity secondary memory device. Well, of course, you want to make a very clear distinction between the memory device jo itself and — the function memory. The intention itself is not reprehensible, but “do what you do well”. The — term memory would be much more appropriate for a short description of a large-capacity memory device. Specific terms would be: primary memory, secondary memory, magnetic memory, regenerative memory, free-reference memory, (RAM) memory, persistent memory, operating memory, etc. ir The main memory would consist of memory ar storage modules. Be doubts will have their function terms ir permanent memory, operational memory, virtual memory. The resources of words must be saved, but we waste them carelessly. We don’t even think about it, ar the new term’s proposition is certainly impeccable, the structure of ar to the term is not such that it would perfectly name a completely different concept. Tų Nevertheless, it always happens that the most 130
appropriate term to express a new concept is already occupied and the logic of the concept system is confused. Will it not be the same with the memory? Also, how do we translate the computer term clipboard? Is it the way it is usually done — simply using the English term or putting it in quotation marks, or trying to introduce the two-word, uneconomical and inaccurate term cache? This is where the term memory fits. A memory could mean a very small memory device, such as a register. Stasys ZAJANKAUSKAS 131
