goldfain@osiris.cso.uiuc.edu (01/02/88)
/* Written Dec 29, 1987 by george@hyper.lap.upenn.edu in comp.cog-eng */ > In a similar vein: "uploading" and "downloading". I've never been able to > get these straight. My intuition is to make an analogy with upriver and > downriver - the larger machine being closer to the sea (-:) > ------------- George Zipperlen george@apollo.lap.upenn.edu -------- The way I make sense of this is from the usual diagrams that show the mainframe as a towering oracle over the lowly PCs that gather around its feet: /-----------\ <---\ | Mainframe | | \-----|-----/ upload | /|\ | download /-----/-----/---- | ----\-----\-----\ | | | | | | | | / PC PC PC PC PC PC PC <---- The usage is even more confused with more peer-to-peer communications taking place. I am betting that horizontal metaphors will take over as a result (probably get/put). Mark Goldfain