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From: goldfain@osiris.cso.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.cog-eng
Subject: Re: spatial reference in natural la
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Date: 2 Jan 88 13:13:00 GMT
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/* 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