Josef “Jeff” Sipek

First Post

I’m not sure if I’ll keep this blog, but FWIW I’ll use it mostly for Linus quotes. Here’s the first piece:

From: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org On Behalf Of Linus Torvalds
Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2003 8:52 AM
To: Albert Cahalan
Cc: linux-kernel; davem@redhat.com; bcollins@debian.org; wli@holomorphy.com; tom_gall@vnet.ibm.com; anton@samba.org
Subject: Re: /proc/bus/pci

On Thu, 5 Jun 2003, Albert Cahalan wrote:
> Some of the IBMers use "phb" instead of “hose” or “domain”.
Gods, did they run out of vowels in _that_ part of IBM too?

Where do they go? Is there somebody at IBM that hoards vowels, and will one day hold the rest of the world hostage? “Mwahahahaa! If you don’t buy support from IBM, you can never use the letter ’A’ again! Whahahahhhaah!”.

I can see it now.

What the _f*ck_ is wrong with just calling it “PCI domain”. It’s a fine word, and yes, "domain" is used commonly in computer language, but that’s a _good_ thing. Everybody immediately understands what it is about.

There is no goodness to acronyms where you have to be some “insider” to know what the hell it means. That “hose” thing has the same problem: I don’t know about anybody else, but to me a “hose” is a logn narrow conduit for water, and a “PCI hose” doesn’t much make sense to me.

A “phb” just makes me go “Whaa?”

Linus

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