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Subject:Re: Improper Terminology From:barryk -at- MDHOST -dot- CSE -dot- TEK -dot- COM Date:Wed, 17 Sep 1997 15:53:27 -0700
On Wed, 17 Sep 1997, Hal Wrobel wrote:
> Given the understandable sensitivity to the master/slave analogy,
> perhaps primary/secondary would be more appropriate.
>
I find the usage of primary/secondary offensive.
I would not want to be thought of as "secondary."
We must be sensitive to the feelings of hard disk drives.
-Barry Kieffer
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