Late last month, Sun held a press conference detailing its microprocessor roadmap, featuring a range of chips including the current UltraSPARC III, the dual-core UltraSPARC IV, the SMT-based UltraSPARC V, and the highly multithreaded Niagara processor. Last week Ace’s Hardware had the chance to sit down with Dr. Marc Tremblay and discuss some of the new processors and technologies on Sun’s roadmap for the future.
Architecting the Future: Interview with Dr. Marc Tremblay
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It was interesting to hear Dr. Tremblay talk about the interaction between the OS guys and the hardware/chip guys. I suppose it is advantageous to have one company produce both the hardware and software… at least for Sun.
Why do you always ‘verbify’ your nouns. An architect designs. An architect does not architect.
architect (ärk-tkt)
n.
1. One who designs and supervises the construction of buildings or other large structures.
2. One that plans or devises.
[Latin architectus, from Greek arkhitektn : arkhi-, archi- + tektn, builder; see teks- in Indo-European Roots.]
So, an architect designs, plans or devises. He doesn’t ‘architect.’
Please don’t make up words because you’re too lazy to write correctly.
Is an arguement over the use of “architect” the most you’ve gotten from this article??
Certainly not, but I’m rather disinclined to read an article when the title is non-sensical. It’s not as if we’ve got a lack of words or grammar that prevent people from writing in clear, readable style now is it?
Hmm… it’s been several hours and yet this hasn’t been changed yet. “Architecting” simply isn’t a word.
What is with the Sacrosanct Bailiwick grammar police!
“Hmm… it’s been several hours and yet this hasn’t been changed yet. “Architecting” simply isn’t a word.”
Perhaps because the title comes from the Ace’s Hardware article, and therefore you should be complaining to them, not here.
Next person to use the word architecting gets burninated.
No-one EVER expects the bloody Spanish Inquisition!!!
[ref. Monty Python]
No! Don’t let me be inquisitionitized!
languages are constantly evolving. Only stiffs like to keep them exactly as they are. If architecting isn’t a word, it should be, to meet OUR needs, not the needs of some uptight English nazi.
Architecting has been in use as long as I can remember at least 20yrs, & I never heard a quibble over it before.
Besides I spend alot of my time architecting various HW & SW components too, Architecting to me & others means same thing as design except its more general and allows for detailed design decisions to be postphoned or left variable.
This is nothing compared to what your kids might be doing on their texting phones or that poor girl’s essay.
Now to the article…..
“If architecting isn’t a word, it should be, to meet OUR needs, ”
Crap. We don’t need another word. We’ve got a fine enough one in ‘designing.’ Don’t show your ignorance – use words that enable us all to understand what you’re saying. Remember too the needs of people for whom English is a second language.