>>  Besides, Master/Slave can usually be replaced without loss of
>>  meaning, and in fact, the replacement can often be MORE
>>  meaningful.  PC hard disk drives, for instance, are more
>>  accurately described as Primary/Secondary than Master/Slave,
>>  right?
>
>Unfortunately, no.  The implication you are making here is that my
secondary
>drive, which contains my hard earned data, is somehow less important than
my

No there is a definite master/slave relationship between ATA drives. You
cannot run a secondary drive without a primary drive.

There are other situations where the terms master and slave are probably
misnomers, but for so much stuff this is exactly the relationship that
exists between two pieces of equipment, and for that reason the terms would
have to be "politically correct" The video equipment described in the
original news item sounds like this would be the correct use of the term, as
it sounds like duplicating equipment, or multimaster recording equipment,
such as used in police interviews. In these cases there is a definite M-S
relationship because one piece of equipment commands the other piece.

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