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Typo on About page? #116

Open reppep opened 4 months ago

reppep commented 4 months ago

About - Asahi Linux https://asahilinux.org/about/

I couldn't find the About page in GitHub, sorry. But Dougall isn't an architecture.

Dougall Johnson (dougallj), instruction set architecture extraordinaire. Dougall Johnson (dougallj), instruction set architect extraordinaire.

morsik commented 3 months ago

But what's the issue here? Yes, Dougall is not an architecture, it's the name of the guy who worked on Apple GPU architecture so everything is correct here.

reppep commented 3 months ago

Now: Dougall Johnson (dougallj), instruction set architecture extraordinaire. Change: Dougall Johnson (dougallj), instruction set architect extraordinaire.

Dougall is not an architecture.

On Jun 11, 2024, at 3:09 AM, Konrad Mosoń @.***> wrote:

But what's the issue here? Yes, Dougall is not an architecture, it's the name of the guy who worked on Apple GPU architecture so everything is correct here. — Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub, or unsubscribe. You are receiving this because you authored the thread.Message ID: @.***>

DavidBuchanan314 commented 3 months ago

Dougall is not an architecture.

No, but he is an ((instruction set architecture) extraordinaire).

He is not architecting anything. The ISA already exists, his role is in understanding it, etc.

"extraordinaire" is more or less equivalent to "expert" in this context. I have no idea if that's a pedantically grammatically correct usage of the phrase or not, but either way, the meaning is clear to me.

reppep commented 3 months ago 
Architects don’t only sketch out buildings. They also inspect and propose repairs.

If you want to keep “instruction set architecture” as a block, you need another noun for Dougall. You could call him an ISA architect extraordinaire. Or an ISA analyst would work…

Regards,

Chris

On Jun 11, 2024, at 10:54 AM, David Buchanan @.***> wrote:

Dougall is not an architecture. No, but he is an ((instruction set architecture) extraordinaire). He is not architecting anything. The ISA already exists, his role is in understanding it, etc. "extraordinaire" is more or less equivalent to "expert" in this context. I have no idea if that's a pedantically grammatically correct usage of the phrase or not, but either way, the meaning is clear to me. — Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub, or unsubscribe. You are receiving this because you authored the thread.Message ID: @.***>

DavidBuchanan314 commented 3 months ago

That isn't relevant in this context. The ISA is static, etched into the silicon.