IIRC, as the story goes the folks who designed IBM's SNA (Systems Network Architecture) went out of their way in order to come up with a whole new set of technical jargon for that. I don't remember why, though.
BTW, I've been around long enough to have had conversations like the following:
Them: "I want to run Lotus 1-2-3." (This was the near-universal spreadsheet standard before Microsoft Excel came along.)
Me: "OK, then first we're going to have to get you a PC."
Them: "What's a PC?"
Then I would have to explain that this was a "Personal Computer". And not just any personal computer, either, but rather an "IBM" PC, in order to distinguish it from an Apple or Commodore or TRS-80 or TI-99/4A or Atari or whatever. And they might respond that they didn't even know that IBM made personal computers. (Which they don't any longer, of course.)
BTW, I've been around long enough to have had conversations like the following:
Them: "I want to run Lotus 1-2-3." (This was the near-universal spreadsheet standard before Microsoft Excel came along.)
Me: "OK, then first we're going to have to get you a PC."
Them: "What's a PC?"
Then I would have to explain that this was a "Personal Computer". And not just any personal computer, either, but rather an "IBM" PC, in order to distinguish it from an Apple or Commodore or TRS-80 or TI-99/4A or Atari or whatever. And they might respond that they didn't even know that IBM made personal computers. (Which they don't any longer, of course.)