Re: Alternative terms for master and slave

From	Hans-Bernhard Bröker <HBBroeker@t-online.de>
Newsgroups	comp.arch.embedded
Subject	Re: Alternative terms for master and slave
Date	2020-12-20 01:08 +0100
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Am 19.12.2020 um 03:03 schrieb Brett:

> Master - Apprentice

Doesn't work.  "Apprentice" is not just any member of the master's work 
force; it's a career step towards becoming a master in one's own right. 
That doesn't fit a SPI or I2C device at all.  The correct term from that 
field would be "hand."

And that's before we consider that due to its relation to the past of 
the outgoing POTUS, the word "Apprentice" is just too close to being 
non-PC to bet a concerted world-wide data-sheet audit-and-rewrite on.

The core problem, though, is that however large the bubble of available 
synonyms is, excessive application of PC rules will eventually drain it 
completely.  Eventually you'll be unable to talk about anything, because 
any word actually meaning anything close to what you're trying to say 
will have been found offensive by someone, somewhere, at some point in 
time.  The idea of PC has a risk of being abused as a DDOS attack 
against the system of "language".

> Works where the master can be replaced on failure, which is true with many
> modern distributed software systems.

In which case it was never truly a master-slave system in the first place.

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        Re: Alternative terms for master and slave Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2020-12-15 19:13 +0000
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        Re: Alternative terms for master and slave Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2020-12-20 18:17 +0000
          Re: Alternative terms for master and slave Dimiter_Popoff <dp@tgi-sci.com> - 2020-12-20 23:23 +0200
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