Classification: UNCLASSIFIED Caveats: NONE Mike Muuss and I eventually called it "em ged (with a hard g as in get) as it was shorter to say than "em gee ee dee". Since I view him as the authoritative author I would suggest others do the same.
For a little additional background, and as Mr. Morrison notes, there was originally "ged" which stood for graphics editor. This editor originally ran only on a highly specialized display made by Vector General. Later I purchased a Megatek color display. At that time ged was not as compartmentalized and device independent as it is now so we wound up making two new versions of ged. For the Vector General we had "vged" for Vector General graphics editor (double use of g) which we pronounced "vee gee ee dee". The Megatek version was called "mged" and pronounced "em gee ee dee". I got interested in writing a networked version of ged so I could connect to different display on a different computer (this is before all the wonderful display and frame buffer libraries and other goodies were written). I built a working prototype that Mike then spiffed up to provide display independence. About this time we changed the meaning to "multi-device graphics editor" since we could connect to a variety of different displays and we didn't want a different "ged" for every different kind of display. This is all from a long time ago so my recollection may be slightly fuzzy and corrections are welcome. -----Original Message----- From: Christopher Sean Morrison [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Sunday, August 28, 2011 1:55 PM To: BRL-CAD Users Mailing List Subject: Re: [brlcad-users] How does one pronounce 'mged'? On Aug 28, 2011, at 3:07 AM, Tom Browder wrote: > I have been around BRL-CAD a long time (since 1993) and I learned to > pronounce 'mged' from the guy who introduced me to it. He (and I ever > since) pronounced it as: > > mjed (soft g like the J in Jeb) > > Not long afterward I was discussing my newly-found favorite program > with another mged user in my company and she pronounced it as: > > mGed (hard g as in get) > > So, is there a correct way? If so, perhaps shortly there will be > emanating from the horse's mouth sacred words on the correct > pronunciation of mged which will magically appear on the BRL-CAD web > site. > > At any rate, I would appreciate any thoughts on the subject. I'm > about to introduce some new Korean users to BRL-CAD and would like to > demonstrate to them the right way to pronounce mged. Unlike how to pronounce "BRL-CAD" where there is a written [1] expectation, I'm not sure I'd say there's a right or wrong way to pronounce 'mged' because the horse didn't document it. At least, not that I'm aware of -- maybe it is in an old presentation. That said, I've only ever heard of one or two instances where it was pronounced differently than what the CAD team uses, and this would be one of them. :) We've always referred to it as "em ged" (with a hard g as in get). Prior to the addition of the "m", the tool was (and still is) simply referred to by the component letters "gee ee dee". So you might even hear one of us say "em gee ee dee", but it's usually just "em ged". As our "next generation" geometry editor progresses in development (i.e., what we've been calling "Archer"), it will merge with and *become* mged (after a big public review and comment phase). At that point or sometime soon after, we may drop the superfluous 'm' (which stands for "Multi-device") and go back to the original root "gee ee dee" name. Cheers! Sean [1] "be are el cad", see http://brlcad.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/brlcad/brlcad/trunk/doc/descriptio n.txt ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- EMC VNX: the world's simplest storage, starting under $10K The only unified storage solution that offers unified management Up to 160% more powerful than alternatives and 25% more efficient. Guaranteed. http://p.sf.net/sfu/emc-vnx-dev2dev _______________________________________________ BRL-CAD Users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/brlcad-users Classification: UNCLASSIFIED Caveats: NONE
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