I've often wondered about this, but I've never seen a satisfactory answer.
I have a lot of technical hobbies (electronics, computers, RC etc) where you have to house your projects in an enclosure. This is invariably called a housing, case or enclosure. It is never called a 'host'.
Hand held lasers, and specifically LPF, is the only place you ever see the term 'host' used to mean housing or enclosure.
The term is of course used in other fields, especially computing, but in that usage it means something quite different (e.g. a host computer which is part of a network).
So, old ones, when and where did the use of the term 'host' to mean enclosure for hand held laser begin? Who is to blame? OWN UP!
I have a lot of technical hobbies (electronics, computers, RC etc) where you have to house your projects in an enclosure. This is invariably called a housing, case or enclosure. It is never called a 'host'.
Hand held lasers, and specifically LPF, is the only place you ever see the term 'host' used to mean housing or enclosure.
The term is of course used in other fields, especially computing, but in that usage it means something quite different (e.g. a host computer which is part of a network).
So, old ones, when and where did the use of the term 'host' to mean enclosure for hand held laser begin? Who is to blame? OWN UP!