I wouldn’t say they no longer exist… ide still occasionally used for optical drives…
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SnowdenHeroOfOurTime@unilem.org 11 months agoIf you use a time machine to go back to 2001 when that was last a thing, you can still use the original terminology. Otherwise you will never need the terms since those concepts no longer exist for drives.
Outside of drives there are plenty of self explanatory terms like primary and secondary which work fine.
Malfeasant@lemm.ee 11 months ago
SnowdenHeroOfOurTime@unilem.org 11 months ago
I think the last two motherboards I’ve owned, purchased like 3 years and 8 years ago, did not even have a single IDE port.
SnowdenHeroOfOurTime@unilem.org 11 months ago
Ya know, I remember being confused when someone first used master/slave with me. They had to explain what they meant. I can’t know but I’d venture a guess that primary/secondary would’ve been more clear to me without an explanation. I wouldn’t have intuited why it’s a concept, but I would’ve been able to skip the initial confusion as to how any inanimate object would be called a “slave”
DrBob@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
Coincidentally that’s the year I finished grad school and was probably at the peak of my tech savviness. Things have changed a lot since then. On all fronts.