It took me an embarrassing number of decades before I realized they were called (silicon) chips after American snack chips. I always thought it was a weird thing to call something that was plainly a carefully sliced thin sliver and not a piece chipped off anything.
As I did with potato chips too, but that was an established term in American English and it took me a very long time to realize one was named after the other.
I have a similar memory of when I was young, overhearing my older brother and my uncle talking about chips. I thought they were talking about oven chips (fries elsewhere in the world). They were talking about the semiconductor industry. All I could think about was yummy yummy carbs.
On an unrelated nore, I now work in the semiconductor industry.
Microsoft: NOOO YOU CAN’T USE THAT CPU IT CAME OUT AN ARBITRARY AMOUNT OF TIME AGOOOO!
Linux: Haha potato chip go BRRRR
in the UK we call them microcrisps
It took me an embarrassing number of decades before I realized they were called (silicon) chips after American snack chips. I always thought it was a weird thing to call something that was plainly a carefully sliced thin sliver and not a piece chipped off anything.
As I did with potato chips too, but that was an established term in American English and it took me a very long time to realize one was named after the other.
I have a similar memory of when I was young, overhearing my older brother and my uncle talking about chips. I thought they were talking about oven chips (fries elsewhere in the world). They were talking about the semiconductor industry. All I could think about was yummy yummy carbs.
On an unrelated nore, I now work in the semiconductor industry.
Chips every day!
I am British myself so I can relate to calling them microcrisps😂
tech can be tasty too :)
To be fair, i386 support was removed from the mainline kernel in 2013, and 486SX support was strongly considered to be dropped in 2022.