Gregory's Server@kenshirriff It's interesting that it's a modern tech. It feels like one of those concepts that would have been commercialized in the 60s and now be out of fashion.
Abbreviating lead as P seems a bit like taking the biss.
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 @kenshirriff I read the wikipedia article about the inventor, he seemed super bright and I have to wonder what he would have done with the second half of his life. |
@wikkit Ferroelectric RAM dates back to the early 1950s, strangely enough. This photo from Scientific American, 1955, shows a 256-bit memory constructed by Bell Labs.
Abbreviating lead as P kind of makes sense since lead is Pb; all three elements lose their second letter in PZT. Oxygen got dropped entirely from the abbreviation.