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I have an off-topic rant: I know it's "RISC FIVE" and not "RISC VEE" but as long as companies use letters to represent numbers it's my opinion they forfeit the
by mikece 7y ago
I have an off-topic rant: I know it's "RISC FIVE" and not "RISC VEE" but as long as companies use letters to represent numbers it's my opinion they forfeit the right to complain that people aren't saying it right. Apple finally gave up and changed Mac OS "ex" to macOS; everyone else should follow suit.
- leggomylibro 7y agoI'm not sure it would be less confusing to name the ISA 'RISC' instead of 'RISC-V'. The 'R' in 'ARM' stands for 'RISC'.
- lone_haxx0r 7y agoRISC is a generic term for ISAs with few instructions (in comparison to CISC ISAs).
- loeg 7y ago"RISC-5"
- DannyB2 7y agoIncrement the letter V by three positions and call it RISC-Y.
- jecel 7y agoDone: https://github.com/pulp-platform/riscv https://github.com/pulp-platform/riscv
- sircastor 7y agoBut then went on to call the iPhone 20 "iPhone X". And then switched back to Arabic numerals with the iPhone 11. Not to mention the "Plus" vs "Max" and all the other naming convention mismatches. Anyway, I agree with you.
- ken 7y agoiPhone XR is the worst. The "X" is a number, the "R" is a letter. I just can't see it as anything but "ex-are".
- abacadaba 7y agopretty sure the only people that call it ten-are are apple store employees
- _emacsomancer_ 7y agoand that's only because tim cook will haunt their dreams if they don't
- ncmncm 7y agoI always say "risk-vee", and everybody knows what I mean. I also say "macosix" and "windos" (and used to say "solarix") as generic alternatives to commercial trademarks. Marketing departments can only propose pronunciation, they cannot dictate it, and they have no right or power to prevent inventing synonyms for the trademarks they control. They also have no authority over verbs, so e.g. "googling" is a generic term right out of the gate. There won't be a RISC-VI, so it doesn't matter that it means "5" to some people.
- rjsw 7y agoThe roman numbers were not really used for RISC 3 and 4, (SOAR and SPUR), only for RISC I and RISC II whose development overlapped.
- andrekandre 7y agointerestingly enough, the “v” in risc-v also means “v” as in vector [1] > and so we named it RISC-V. As one of our goals in defining RISC-V was to support research in data-parallel architectures, the Roman numeral ‘V’ also conveniently served as an acronymic pun for “Vector.” [1] https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~krste/papers/EECS-2016-1.pdf https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~krste/papers/EECS-2016-1.p... ———- so maybe in a way “vee” isn’t so inappropriate after all ^_^
- ci5er 7y agoSome people persist in calling "GIF", "jif", so whaddayagonnado?
- tasty_freeze 7y agoI pronounce it with the hard "g", and I'd happily ignore the few people that pronounce it with the soft "g", except that the guy who invented the format intended it to be pronounced "jiff".
- ci5er 7y agoYes. Being old, I remember. Well, considering that the "G" stood for "Graphics" and that "Graphics", in my native American English has a hard-g, I'm just going to declare the author of the format to be a troglodyte and go on from there. (Not that there's anything wrong with that - many of us tech-types are troglodytes and misanthropes and lack a classical education)
- samatman 7y agoI insist on the pronunciation "jayfeg" for JPEG, for the same reason.
- _emacsomancer_ 7y agoDo you also pronounce 'giraffe' and 'giant' with a hard "g"?