Re: naming CPUs

On Mon, 29 Jul 2024 00:57:03 +1000, Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org>
wrote:

On 28/07/2024 5:50 pm, Liz Tuddenham wrote:

john larkin <jlarkin_highland_tech> wrote:
 

I'm planning a new product line, some little PoE instruments, using
the dual-core Raspberry Pi RP2040 chip. One CPU will do the
communications, math, calibrations, and such, and the other will be
hard bare-metal realtime I/O.
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We were debating what to call the two CPUs. Left and Right? Manager
and Realtime? Alice and Bob?
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_and_Bob
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Can't say Master and Slave any more.

 
 
Leader and Follower ... Fuhrer and Sheeple?

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Trump and Vance?

I like that one !

Good luck having the whole electronics industry change from
Master/Slave to something else.  I mean, look at the references in the
past for say, communications protocols.

Pretty soon Male and Female connector references will be sexist.

boB

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Bill Sloman, Sydney