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Typo on About page? #116

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reppep opened this issue May 2, 2024 · 5 comments
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Typo on About page? #116

reppep opened this issue May 2, 2024 · 5 comments

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@reppep
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reppep commented May 2, 2024

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.

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morsik commented Jun 11, 2024

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.

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reppep commented Jun 11, 2024 via email

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DavidBuchanan314 commented Jun 11, 2024

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.

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reppep commented Jun 11, 2024 via email

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

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