Computer terminology and political correctness

From: Ron Hudson <rhudson_at_cnonline.net>
Date: Tue Nov 25 19:29:31 2003

On Tuesday, November 25, 2003, at 03:47 PM, Fred Cisin wrote:

> 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)

They like "planer" board too... but I think that's a bus type board
like S100.


>
> "fixed disk" v "hard disk"? (hmmm, in a veterinary context?)
> "pel" v "pixel"? (defined slightly differently)
>
>
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