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It sounds way less offensive to those who decry the original terminology's problematic roots but still keeps its meaning intact.

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[-] VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

It still bugs me that the old drive connections are called PATA now and not IDE.

[-] sandbox@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

They always were PATA, IDE was always the wrong term to use, but it was commonly used anyways. SATA drives are also IDE drives. It’s not really a useful term anymore because we don’t use separate daughter boards for hard drives anymore.

[-] BCsven@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 months ago

Like new coke, so then we got coke classic

[-] maniii@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Yes PATA IDE was the full old term. Now we have SATA ( SCSI ? or IDE? i dont remember ) .

PATA = Parallel - ATA SATA = Serial - ATA

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