[News] Cell documents _now_ available on the web

Grant Likely glikely at gmail.com
Fri Aug 26 03:12:22 EST 2005


On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 10:27:32AM -0500, Kumar Gala wrote:
> 
> On Aug 25, 2005, at 9:49 AM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> >Now that the official name for the architecture has become
> >CBEA (Cell Broadband Engine Architecture), I wonder if we
> >should rename the stuff in the kernel from BPA (which it
> >has been called so far) to either "CBEA" or simply "cell".
> 
> I would vote for simply "cell" since that seems less likely to change  
> due to marketers :)
Personally, I vote for more, not fewer, incomprehensible acronyms.  How
else do we keep the barriers of entry, and our salaries, high?

:)

g.



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