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Re: IP (was: DMA is obsolete)

From cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net (Dan Cross)
Newsgroups comp.arch
Subject Re: IP (was: DMA is obsolete)
Date 2025-05-03 16:52 +0000
Organization PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC
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In article <vv5dnq$si6$1@gal.iecc.com>, John Levine  <johnl@taugh.com> wrote:
>According to Thomas Koenig  <tkoenig@netcologne.de>:
>>> FWIW, I hate this terminology which comes from "intellectual
>>> property" since it insists on the value of this only as
>>> a bargaining/power tool rather than for what it actually performs.
>>
>>It is also a bit misleading. Where I come from, "intellectual
>>property" refers to patents.
>
>Where I come from it also means copyright and trademarks.
>
>I agree that if it's a building block or a core, call it that.

You don't have to like the terminology, but that's what is used
across the field.  Sorry if it's uncomfortable, and to be honest
I don't care for it much myself, but them's the breaks.  That's
what AMD calls them, so if we're discussing AMD hardware, it
makes sense to use their terminology.

People in construction probably hate that computer people call
things "blocks" that aren't made of concrete.  I'm sure the
networking people don't like it when the hardware people refer
to "IPs" because of the obvious conflict with TCP/IP.  I'm sure
auto mechanics don't like it when mathematicians talk about
"manifolds" that have nothing to do with car engines.

Ambiguities in terminology abound across fields.  But insisting
that someone not use more or less standard terminology because
it conflicts with something in another field is silly.

	- Dan C.

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DMA is obsolete John Levine <johnl@taugh.com> - 2025-04-26 16:19 +0000
  Re: DMA is obsolete Lars Poulsen <lars@cleo.beagle-ears.com> - 2025-04-26 16:28 +0000
    Re: DMA is obsolete Terje Mathisen <terje.mathisen@tmsw.no> - 2025-04-26 19:28 +0200
    Re: DMA is obsolete Theo <theom+news@chiark.greenend.org.uk> - 2025-04-27 19:35 +0100
      Re: DMA is obsolete mitchalsup@aol.com (MitchAlsup1) - 2025-04-27 20:49 +0000
        Re: DMA is obsolete scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2025-04-27 22:37 +0000
      Re: DMA is obsolete Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-04-28 01:20 +0000
  Re: DMA is obsolete scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2025-04-26 17:29 +0000
    Re: DMA is obsolete mitchalsup@aol.com (MitchAlsup1) - 2025-04-26 19:25 +0000
      Re: DMA is obsolete scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2025-04-27 14:01 +0000
        Re: DMA is obsolete scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2025-04-27 16:12 +0000
      Re: DMA is obsolete scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2025-04-27 14:02 +0000
      Re: DMA is obsolete Theo <theom+news@chiark.greenend.org.uk> - 2025-04-27 20:13 +0100
        Re: DMA is obsolete mitchalsup@aol.com (MitchAlsup1) - 2025-04-27 20:45 +0000
          Re: DMA is obsolete scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2025-04-27 22:44 +0000
      Re: DMA is obsolete cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net (Dan Cross) - 2025-05-01 13:07 +0000
        Re: DMA is obsolete mitchalsup@aol.com (MitchAlsup1) - 2025-05-01 22:03 +0000
          Re: DMA is obsolete cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net (Dan Cross) - 2025-05-02 02:15 +0000
            Re: DMA is obsolete anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2025-05-02 05:34 +0000
              Re: DMA is obsolete cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net (Dan Cross) - 2025-05-02 15:02 +0000
                Re: DMA is obsolete anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2025-05-03 06:11 +0000
                Re: DMA is obsolete Robert Finch <robfi680@gmail.com> - 2025-05-03 06:32 -0400
                Re: DMA is obsolete cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net (Dan Cross) - 2025-05-03 13:33 +0000
                IP (was: DMA is obsolete) Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2025-05-03 10:50 -0400
                Re: IP (was: DMA is obsolete) Thomas Koenig <tkoenig@netcologne.de> - 2025-05-03 15:15 +0000
                Re: IP (was: DMA is obsolete) John Levine <johnl@taugh.com> - 2025-05-03 15:46 +0000
                Re: IP (was: DMA is obsolete) cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net (Dan Cross) - 2025-05-03 16:52 +0000
                Re: IP (was: DMA is obsolete) scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2025-05-03 21:31 +0000
                Re: IP Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2025-05-03 23:04 -0400
                Re: IP cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net (Dan Cross) - 2025-05-04 09:56 +0000
                Re: IP Thomas Koenig <tkoenig@netcologne.de> - 2025-05-04 10:17 +0000
                Re: IP mitchalsup@aol.com (MitchAlsup1) - 2025-05-04 18:16 +0000
                Re: IP Bill Findlay <findlaybill@blueyonder.co.uk> - 2025-05-04 19:37 +0100
                Re: IP Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-05-04 21:31 +0000
                Re: DMA is obsolete Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-05-04 06:44 +0000
                Re: DMA is obsolete scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2025-05-03 21:53 +0000
                Re: DMA is obsolete mitchalsup@aol.com (MitchAlsup1) - 2025-05-03 23:02 +0000
                Re: DMA is obsolete cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net (Dan Cross) - 2025-05-21 12:36 +0000
            Re: DMA is obsolete mitchalsup@aol.com (MitchAlsup1) - 2025-05-02 17:40 +0000
              Re: DMA is obsolete Terje Mathisen <terje.mathisen@tmsw.no> - 2025-05-03 14:29 +0200
                ND-10 (was Re: DMA is obsolete) Lars Poulsen <lars@beagle-ears.com> - 2025-05-03 23:30 +0000
                Re: ND-10 (was Re: DMA is obsolete) Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-05-04 02:10 +0000

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