It’s awfully good the way the Financial Times throws in those helpful explanations in all its computer stories – modem, a device which (sic) turns computer code into signals which (sic) can be transmitted along a telephone line; Unix is… a complicated program that controls the internal operations of the computer; even footprint (the space taken up on the user’s desk), but to be consistent, shouldn’t the paper add after car, a horseless carriage propelled by an internal combustion engine, in which petrol, a form of refined oil, is ignited so as to cause an explosion in a confined space at one end of which is a piston that, propelled by the explosion causes a crankshaft to rotate, the rotation being passed by a system of gearing to the wheels?
