Computer terminology and political correctness

From: Fred Cisin <cisin_at_xenosoft.com>
Date: Tue Nov 25 15:47:09 2003

On Tue, 25 Nov 2003, R. D. Davis wrote:
> Did anyone hear that some bureaucrat, in charge of purchasing for the
> city of Los Angles, has sent a letter to all of the city's suppliers
> of equipment, asking them not to use the "insenstive" words "master"
> and "slave" in relation to equipment sold to the city? Maybe this
> means that there will be a glut of politically incorrect surplus
> computer equipment and documentation available there. Of course,
> they'd probably recycle it into scrap so as to not risk offending
> purchasers... too bad they don't just recycle the political
> correctness into something else.

... and did you know why IBM uses "System Board" v "Motherboard"?
(hint: Black Panthers at Merritt College in Oakland)

"fixed disk" v "hard disk"? (hmmm, in a veterinary context?)
"pel" v "pixel"? (defined slightly differently)
Received on Tue Nov 25 2003 - 15:47:09 GMT