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'Master' and 'slave': Tech terms face scrutiny amid anti-racism efforts
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madires:

--- Quote from: Simon on June 29, 2020, 09:23:29 am ---master is a very broad term. it's even used in the context of learning something practical, you master a skill, you become a master craftsman. People wanting to get rid of master must have very limited exposure to the full extent of the english language.

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More likely languages in general, because most languages share the same principle of words having multiple meanings based on the context they are used in. In German the master of a slave would be "Herr" which is also used to address male persons besides many other meanings. For example, Christians call their god "Herr".
GeorgeOfTheJungle:

--- Quote from: Simon on June 29, 2020, 08:51:18 am ---it's not even SDI SDO, it's the fact that they didn't just say SPI [...]

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Sometimes the manufacturers use different names to avoid paying royalties, e.g. they say in the datasheet "two wire protocol" instead of i2c, or avoid "SDCard" like the plague and say "flash card" instead, the same goes for "One Wire", etc.

If that's an old Texas Instruments datasheet, perhaps they didn't want to pay Motorola? (just guessing).
Kjelt:
They should have called it SIWSCADLNTBCWI2SWIIN1 that would cover it  :-DD


1Serial Interface With Seperated Clock And Data Lines Not To Be Confused With I2S Which It Is Not.
Simon:

--- Quote from: madires on June 29, 2020, 12:29:55 pm ---
--- Quote from: Simon on June 29, 2020, 09:23:29 am ---master is a very broad term. it's even used in the context of learning something practical, you master a skill, you become a master craftsman. People wanting to get rid of master must have very limited exposure to the full extent of the english language.

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More likely languages in general, because most languages share the same principle of words having multiple meanings based on the context they are used in. In German the master of a slave would be "Herr" which is also used to address male persons besides many other meanings. For example, Christians call their god "Herr".

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I always thought that an unmarried man was a master and again historically while a servant may have refereed to their employer as "sir" they would have called the son "master". It is certainly not that much status but a word used to differentiate from the one with actual authority the mr or sir of the house.
donotdespisethesnake:
Now we really go off the deep end: https://hackaday.com/2020/06/29/updating-the-language-of-spi-pin-labels-to-remove-casual-references-to-slavery/

Purging the language to eliminate evil... won't work. The problem with taking things too far like this is that people will tune out, or worse make a counter reaction. I guess refusing to change my schematics now makes me a racist, as does not wearing a poppy or saluting the flag make me a communist or something.  :scared:

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