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| Muttley Snickers:
--- Quote from: daqq on June 11, 2020, 07:26:35 am ---FFS, this again? --- End quote --- Yep, it got to three pages long last time around. ::) https://www.eevblog.com/forum/chat/masterslave/ |
| daqq:
--- Quote ---So if it is going to happen one way or another, then it is best to be out in front of it with a new standard pair of words. --- End quote --- (facepalm) Fair enough. Assuming that companies give in to idiocy, then the term PRIMARY and SECONDARY are simply bad. It invokes the feeling of inequality and classism, so someone might get offended. It should be EQUAL and EQUAL. More seriously, the words PRIMARY and SECONDARY invoke the feeling of a equal-ish relationship, where there is no hierarchy, it just hints that one device will get data sooner or be prioritized or some such. But to use something other than MASTER-SLAVE you need to accurately describe a relationship where one of the devices has effectively no rights to do anything aside from what the master tells it to. The closes would be (with my limited grasp of english - it's not my primary language) COMMANDER-SUBORDINATE, though that's still not very accurate, and it's excessively long. |
| JoeN:
--- Quote from: Muttley Snickers on June 11, 2020, 07:35:54 am --- --- Quote from: daqq on June 11, 2020, 07:26:35 am ---FFS, this again? --- End quote --- Yep, it got to three pages long last time around. ::) https://www.eevblog.com/forum/chat/masterslave/ --- End quote --- Sorry, I did do a search to try to find that to see if there was a prior discussion. This is obviously because the question is getting pretty heated in the public discourse now. I remember the last time this was discussed I was of the opinion that it would be forgotten soon enough and it was. This time, I am not so sure it is going to be forgotten. Things are even weirder than normal right now. How about DILBERT and DOGBERT instead? :) |
| Berni:
This is just ridiculous. But then again it was even controversial that Linux uses the number 0xB16B00B5 as the host id in HyperV. Whats wrong with it? Well it looks like big boobs... :palm: Its not like you even get to see this number anywhere. You only see it in the form of a #define in the source code. Why would you even care? So if its this far reaching should now all manufacturers of chips with a SPI bus change the MOSI and MISO pin names? What about black holes? Are we allowed to call them black still? Should we call them light absent holes instead? And what do we print on black spraypaint cans? Light absorbing spray paint? I'm all for black people rights, but if can't handle simple commonly used words (Ones printed bilions of times in literature all over the words) then that is your own damn problem you delicate snowflake. |
| julianhigginson:
Primary and secondary would work fine as a replacement for master/slave. Most people are capable of adjusting to meanings.... Well except for fragile angry white guys, apparently. |
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