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> Why not apply some computing terminology?
>
> Client/server and host/workstation are inoffensive and in the same
vein...
Neither one these alternatives implies that one devices _controls_ the
other. In fact, a host is often at the whim of the workstation.
> Driver / client, perhaps?
"Driver", I think, is closer to "master", but 1) I think the word has
already fallen
wholly to the realm of software device drivers, 2) it doesn't compliment
"client" as "server" does, and 3) "client" doesn't imply being controlled.
Mike
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