On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 11:39:52AM -0700, Zan Lynx wrote:
> Timothy Miller wrote:
>
(snip)
> >>
> >>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.
> >
> >
> [snip]
> How about Open Graphics Adapter Card: OGAC
I like the thinking in this thread a _lot_. I think the letter
combination OGA will suggest the right concepts to the intended audience.
The fully written-out phrase is even better. How about:
OGA means Open Graphics Architecture.
Any ASIC that implements an OGA is an OGA IC.
Any board containing an OGA implementation is an OGA Card.
Those would become generic trade names for a broad class of
products, rather than names for specific products. Now, if we do it that
way, do we still need product names, or is it enough to give each product a
unique part number that identifies its exact features within the category
"OGA Card"? Traversal board part numbers might begin OGA- or OGA1-.
(Since there may be more than one OGA spec over time, we might want
to start right off calling the first architecture implemented in ASIC
OGA1. The alternative is to call the first one OGA and any successors OGA2,
OGA3, etc., but I think that's more likely to invite confusion.)
This is a lot like what DEC did with the Tulip family. There are
several Tulip ASICs, and an assortment of Tulip boards containing those
ASICs. The Linux kernel has 3 or 4 Tulip drivers available for selection.
The Tulip name is associated mainly with the register model which is
presented to the driver.
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Change of subject:
I did a little looking around the other night for existing uses of
some of the other names suggested earlier.
Claritas had all kinds of uses. Claritus is the name of a big
hospital chain, but I didn't find anything associated with computers or
graphics.
Claritos had lots of Google hits, but only in the Spanish language.
Graphicard had some hits at USPTO, but only for printed greeting
cards, and mostly abandoned.
Clarian had a lot of hits, I forget for what.
I'll see what I can find for OGA.
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We'd need a different name for the FPGA development board, since
it's not a fixed implementation of OGA or whatever we finally call it. I
suggested Bridgehead the other day (or Beachhead). Opinions?
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