XPost: comp.lang.c, comp.mobile.android   
   From: gah@ugcs.caltech.edu   
      
   In comp.lang.c Juha Nieminen  wrote:   
   > In comp.lang.c++ Steve Hayes  wrote:   
   >> You download things FROM a computer, you upload them TO a computer.   
      
   > It's a matter of perspective. If a hacker breaks into your computer and   
   > starts a download from somewhere else into your computer, isn't the hacker   
   > "downloading" things to your computer?   
      
   As well as I know it, the term originated near the beginning of the   
   microcomputer era, when data would be downloaded from a larger   
   computer to a smaller one, or uploaded from a small computer to a   
   larger one.  There is an assumption of a big server and a small   
   local machine.  (The server may be a large server farm with many   
   small computers, the size being aggregate.)   
      
      
   Early machines weren't big enough to run an assembler, so it was   
   done with a cross assembler on a bigger machine and downloaded.   
      
   So, in the case of a hacker, it depends on the size of your computer   
   and the size of the computer where the data is coming from.   
      
   There should also be size independent terms like transfer and copy.   
      
   -- glen   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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