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Subject:RE: Pet Peeves From:Chris Borokowski <athloi -at- yahoo -dot- com> To:techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com Date:Fri, 16 Mar 2007 06:50:20 -0700 (PDT)
Disagreed, in this case. Primary and secondary can
refer to sequential usage. In this case, it's a
two-unit daisy chain and that needs to be expressed by
the language.
I haven't found a better way to say it than a
variation on what's above.
--- Jonathan West <jwest -at- mvps -dot- org> wrote:
> The words "Primary" and "Secondary" would quite
> sufficient for the purpose
> of describing the circumstances under which the
> different jumper settings
> are used.
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