Re: [9fans] Re: 9Front and The Future of Platform Support

2025-04-01 Thread Brian L. Stuart
On Tue, Apr 01, 2025 at 10:59:06PM +0200, Roberto E. Vargas Caballero wrote: > On Tue, Apr 01, 2025 at 12:33:47PM -0400, o...@eigenstate.org wrote: > > Quoth Roman Belenov : > > > Why not Alpha? Or it's never-released-for-some-reason successor Iota? > > > > Too niche, obviously. > > I have an alp

Re: [9fans] Re: 9Front and The Future of Platform Support

2025-04-01 Thread Dan Cross
On Tue, Apr 1, 2025, 6:24 PM Brian L. Stuart wrote: > On Tue, Apr 01, 2025 at 10:59:06PM +0200, Roberto E. Vargas Caballero > wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 01, 2025 at 12:33:47PM -0400, o...@eigenstate.org wrote: > > > Quoth Roman Belenov : > > > > Why not Alpha? Or it's never-released-for-some-reason s

Re: [9fans] Re: 9Front and The Future of Platform Support

2025-04-01 Thread Roberto E. Vargas Caballero
On Tue, Apr 01, 2025 at 12:33:47PM -0400, o...@eigenstate.org wrote: > Quoth Roman Belenov : > > Why not Alpha? Or it's never-released-for-some-reason successor Iota? > > Too niche, obviously. I have an alpha computer! No alpha support no hackathon!! -

Re: [9fans] Re: 9Front and The Future of Platform Support

2025-04-01 Thread Roman Belenov
Yes, Alpha was not a good name; to fix the issue, they had plan B (Beta), plan 3 (Gamma) to make it even better, and eventually Iota was supposed to be the last word in naming and CPU design, but something went wrong... -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9

Re: [9fans] Re: 9Front and The Future of Platform Support

2025-04-01 Thread Frank D. Engel, Jr.
Not sure about Iota, but Alpha as an architecture name is a likely source of confusion that would be nice to avoid. How easy to mistake an alpha release as a release for Alpha?  Not to metion alpha releases for Alpha... It makes me wonder what the conversations would be like if the company A

Re: [9fans] Re: 9Front and The Future of Platform Support

2025-04-01 Thread ori
Quoth Roman Belenov : > Why not Alpha? Or it's never-released-for-some-reason successor Iota? Too niche, obviously. -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/T82bf787acede8ea1-Meb9cd5c8c415420c60494845 Delivery options: https://9f

[9fans] Re: 9Front and The Future of Platform Support

2025-04-01 Thread Roman Belenov
Why not Alpha? Or it's never-released-for-some-reason successor Iota? -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/T82bf787acede8ea1-M4e718e07c68a925214363682 Delivery options: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/subscription