Comment on If "Master/Slave" terminology in computing sounds bad now, why not change it to "Dom/Sub"?
collapse_already@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
A post-doc that occasionally taught one of my electrical engineering classes in the mid-90s liked to call master-slave flip-flops professor-graduate student flip-flops. I later learned he was not making a joke.
MataVatnik@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I don’t get it
cucumber_sandwich@lemmy.world 2 months ago
The relationship between a grad student and their professor is generally characterized by a profound power imbalance.
MataVatnik@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Oh I got confused because I was thinking of literally flip flops
rcbrk@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
The footwear, or the logic gate arrangement?