On 9/4/05, J.O. Aho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 4 Sep 2005, Martin Jeppesen wrote: > > >> Indeed, it sounds a lot more professional and business-like. I would take > >> "adapter" over "card" though. Just like we had the Color Graphics Adapter > >> and the Enhanced Graphics Adapter, we can now have an Open Graphics > >> Adapter (OGA). Then we get things like > > > > To me, using adapter instread of card is now, so I can say with 100% > > surdenty, that if I have never clicked on a link that contained adapter, > > when I was looking for a card. To me an adapter and a card are two very > > different things. > > I have to agree here, for me an adapter is a thing you need to connect a > VGA monitor to a Sun Ultra1 with only 13W3 port. While a card is something > you set into your expantion slots on your mainboard. I would think that > most people have the same kind of thought about the two words, may not > include the hardcode hardware wizzies. > > If picking between Card or Adapter, I vote for Card.
Unfortunately, I have agree with you. I was thinking that TTOGA (or TOGA or just pronounced like 'toga') would be a good name. But you're right. Maybe we can call it TTOGC, where it's pronounced like 'tog'. :) Or maybe 'A' could be 'Architecture', so we call it the "TTOGA Card". It's the Traveral Technology Open Graphics Architecture Card. The only problem with that is that it's really an Open Architecture Graphics Card. But that's not so bad if we refer to the architecture that we've collectively designed as "The Open Graphics Architecture", as some sort of official name... and then there's a Card that implements it, and then it all makes sense. :) And so it doesn't look funny, we could all agree that a single T refers to Traversal Technology. BTW, add-on cards, I think, used to be called "peripheral adaptors," although the terminology has since changed a bit. _______________________________________________ Open-graphics mailing list [email protected] http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com)
