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Re: Political Correctness comes to the Tech Arena
« on: November 27, 2003, 04:56:56 PM »
From a newsletter I get:

Los Angeles County officials have asked that manufacturers,
suppliers and contractors stop using the terms "master" and "slave"
regarding computer hard drives, saying such terms are unacceptable
and offensive.  Additionally, the term "e-mail" will now be called
"e-person letter," "dumb terminals" will are now "CPU-challenged
monitors" and "Unix" will be referred to as "sexually dysfunctional
operating system."  Obviously, "fingering" is now banned entirely.