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From: Larry McVoy <lm@bitmover.com>
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On Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 10:57:21AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Since we're talking about the other end of a "host" driver, "client" makes
> sense - in computers, I've always seen "client" as the reverse of the
> "host", but maybe that's just me. Outside of computers, "guest" seems to
> be the proper antonym, but that just strikes me as bizarre (a "USB guest
> driver"?)

What about "target"?  In SCSI land, it's clear that a target is the device,
and when you talk about code that runs on a computer and makes it be a 
SCSI target, everyone knows what you mean, right?  So what about code that
makes a computer a USB target?  Would that work?  That's the only thing I
could think of that was similar.  Does USB already use the term target for
something else?
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Larry McVoy            	 lm at bitmover.com           http://www.bitmover.com/lm 
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