My understanding was that they would have required companies, like hard disk manufacturers, to change labeling on their products to remove references to "master" and "slave".
When I heard it, I couldn't believe it. These days, I've come to expect inane proposals like this. Even more so since I live in Northern Virginia and have to listen to the ravings from Montgomery County, MD or the DC Government.
As I'm sure most Freeper professionals will agree, the use of certain terms are meant to promote clarity. I've seen "master" and "slave" used in the computer industry, and even in my digital circuits class. I'm sure they appear in other diciplines.
Other terms the libs were considering eliminating were "male" and "female" for connectors, and terms like "motherboard" and "daughtercard". Even today, I see both "mainboard" and "motherboard" used interchangably. I've always refered to "motherboards" myself.
Seems like these people need to be smacked with the clue-stick a few times. You'd think there would be better activities to spend your time on than scouring the internet looking for things that offend you.
you forgot male and female plug ends :)
one of my favourite (stupid) discriminations, demanding a company change something, i've heard was a number of years ago MSU (michigan) took a bid from IBM to put computers in all their computer labs, with the condition that the IBM "blue" logo be changed to green. (blue being the team color of rival college UofM).
One Christmas break when I was a teenager I worked for a local hardware store doing inventory. I had never heard the 'male' & 'female' description used for connectors, plugs, etc. & I turned every shade of red when it was explained to me.