Hey Prof, I think its great that there's somebody out there doing this for free and is a wonderful asset to anyone working towards getting their A+ (like me!).

In your video " Identifying Memory Types" you said that RIMM was an acronym for Rambus Inline Memory Module. I have a copy of the "Sybex CompTIA A+ Complete study Guide" and in the guide it says (pg. 36) that RIMM is NOT an acronym, but a trademark of Rambus Inc. and perhaps a clever play on the term DIMM.

Just some interesting information i thought i might pass on to everyone. Keep the videos coming!

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I have a copy of the "Sybex CompTIA A+ Complete study Guide" and in the guide it says (pg. 36) that RIMM is NOT an acronym, but a trademark of Rambus Inc. and perhaps a clever play on the term DIMM.

I should have probably been more clear in the video, but this is a good example of the technical community changing the intention of a word or abbreviation and making it theirs.

Although Rambus, Inc. was doing everything they could to create a comfortable marketing buzz around their advanced memory architecture, propeller heads everywhere took the term RIMM and turned it into Rambus Inline Memory Module (even though that wasn't technically correct).

This happens all the time with technology nomenclature. For example, we refer to Ethernet network connections as RJ-45 connectors, but this is technically incorrect. A similar thing happened to the DB-9 connector.

Fortunately, the CompTIA A+ exam isn't quite so strict in its interpretation of these particular technology terms. In every case that I've seen, the exam follows the generally accepted industry term (RJ-45, DB-9), even if we're all technically calling it by the wrong name.

Personally, I'd like to see more technical terms like this.