Reply to post: Re: RE: Master / slave

GitLab latest to ditch 'master' as default initial branch name: It's now simply called 'main'

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Re: RE: Master / slave

A client/server relationship always had a different meaning than a master/slave one.

A client asks the server to perform a tasks and gets the results - in the master/slave the master fully controls asks the slaves to perform a task and gets the results.

Yet, the meaning of server itself imply servitude - from Latin servus, which means exactly, guess it, "slave".

The problem is the ignorance of the actual generation of programmers if very deep.

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