Computer terminology and political correctness

From: Kevin Handy <kth_at_srv.net>
Date: Wed Nov 26 10:45:43 2003

Fred Cisin wrote:

>On Tue, 25 Nov 2003, R. D. Davis wrote:
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>>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.
>>
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>... and did you know why IBM uses "System Board" v "Motherboard"?
>(hint: Black Panthers at Merritt College in Oakland)
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>"fixed disk" v "hard disk"? (hmmm, in a veterinary context?)
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A hard disk may be of the removable pack type. A fixed disk isn't.
It's a stricter definition.

>"pel" v "pixel"? (defined slightly differently)
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