Doug Henwood wrote:
>
> Two unrelated questions:
>
> 1) When did the use of "space" illustrated in the quote below become
> common? Is it a techie word originally?
>
> >"If desktop processors were our only problem we would be
> >close to forecasts. What's driving our problem is that it is
> >spreading into the server space as well."
> >
> >--Intel CFO Andy Bryant, explaining the company's newly
> >downgraded profit forecast.
Doug, the OED devotes 15 columns to _space_. Much too long to pore through it, but I would guess that probably the word has been so used for several centuries any how. Someone must have somewhere written something like "the practice has spread from industrial to cultural space." And so on and so forth.
Carrol