If "Master/Slave" terminology in computing sounds bad now, why not change it to "Dom/Sub"? - eviltoast

It sounds way less offensive to those who decry the original terminology’s problematic roots but still keeps its meaning intact.

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    4 months ago

    It was changed a while ago, it’s primary and secondary now. It’s been that way for a decade+ at this point.

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      4 months ago

      Not every domain though. I still see master/slave in every relevant datasheets that I read, and I’ve never seen primary/secondary in newer datasheets.

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        4 months ago

        That’s interesting, because everything I run into now has primary/secondary or main and secondary. I’ve not seen master and slave for a good 5 years now, sure older stuff still carries it but most that new has swapped over.

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          4 months ago

          I should recheck newer datasheets, but I still see master/slave nomenclature in STM32 doc and tools for example.