“Followers" have a choice which does not apply here. The second stage of a flip-flop has no choice. The metaphor has to allow arbitrary behaviour of the first stage and zero choice to anything but obedience for the second stage. - Stewart > On 27 Jul 2020, at 17:31, Joseph Touch <touch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > FWIW, for flip-flops, leader/follower works too. > >> On Jul 27, 2020, at 5:35 AM, Stewart Bryant <stewart.bryant@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> Joe >> >> I see how that properly describes the relative authority of the two components. >> >> I always prefer to use a h/w flip-flop to visualise the behaviour. >> >> I am fine with moving to a new name provided we captures the actual behaviour. >> >> Stewart >> >>> On 26 Jul 2020, at 22:49, Joseph Touch <touch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>>> On Jul 26, 2020, at 2:32 PM, Jay Daley <jay@xxxxxxxx> wrote: >>>> >>>> A question I can’t resolve by Googling - has anyone attempted to create entirely new words to represent the concepts that master or slave have been used to represent? e.g. a word that means "authoritative source of data that has no dependency on another source" and has no other meaning? >>> >>> Why aren’t either primary or authoritative vs. copy/secondary/replica sufficient? >>> >>> Joe >> >
