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Subject:Re: It did happen on a Friday... From:"Mike O." <obie1121 -at- yahoo -dot- com> To:techwr-l Date:Tue, 24 Feb 2004 04:05:42 -0500
Edwin Skau wrote:
> Before offering a naming convention, I would want to know whether there
was
> a generic context for the clocks at each level that the name could
indicate.
>
> Purely on a mapping level, you could use anything that depicted three
> levels, including grandparent, parent and child...
How about "grandfather clock?"
Somebody should tell these engineers that, if you are trying to replace the
phrase "master/slave," the idea is to come up with something that is LESS
objectionable. :-)
