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By Jairo Uparella
In Spanish-land, it is common to hear people talking about the “CPU”, as the box at thecomputer where you can find the hard drives, the main board or motherboard,processor, etc. Well, to start this is not its real name. This cabinet, box or unit is calledCENTRAL SYSTEM UNIT, confused with CENTRAL PROCESSING UNIT, or CPUwhich is precisely the processor (Pentium, AMD, Celeron, Core Duo or whatever, themain chip embedded in the motherboard). That is the CPU. Another pagan term is"BURNER", mediocre word to designate the CDRW, CD or DVD drive that can record.When the concept of Virtual Reality appeared, many people began to use the termVIRTUAL to put names to everything that is in the network or computer, to say that youare online or away (distance).The term “VIRTUAL”, is a term denoting those things that exist, are identified, produceeffects, aren’t abstract and not tangible. Your image in the mirror is “Virtual” becauseyou are “Real”.Initially, this term was used in Computer Science in the context of Multitasking with Pre-emptive Rights, to designate the area of "apparent" RAM that is used to run programsbecause the "real" memory (the chips) was not enough. Then the pages are saved onhard disk that is certainly what you have heard of “virtual memory” of your computer.Then “Virtual” term was used to designate the “virtual machines”, in those old machines(with BASIC, COBOL, FORTRAN) which could not afford to run two applications orprograms at once, then, dividing the memory space to run these machines independentwas called “Virtual Machine” for each. Today each MS / DOS that you open is a virtualmachine, while Excel, Word and others share a virtual space where they “run”. (VirtualMode 86, the protected mode 286 and following)The real memory is the chip’s memory, virtual memory is the process of "makingbelieve" that it have more space for running applications, ie a simulated memory.Virtual Reality, uses the term abstract “REALITY”, not as meaning, as many peopletake it, as a synonym for "FACT" or "TRUTH", but does the fact that something isREAL in principle, you can touch it, is tangible and as its mission and purpose is toproduce an effect that is not real, it is taken to the Virtual Space, ie the environment orThird Dimension 3D.Then you can talk about a “car”, because it is real, and if it is virtual, means that is a 3Dmodel. You can steer it and learn to drive, but not to say that this is a “Virtual Learning”,or “Virtual Education”, because the “car” is the virtual thing and “education” must beREALThen the concept of “Virtual Education” is not correct. Virtual Education has damagedthe concept of E-learning, which is the appropriate term. If the teacher put an "E",believe it is real.
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