Originally posted by: Elcs
Originally posted by: Bateluer
Originally posted by: LTC8K6
Don't tell him about PCI-X.
Grr . . . newbs using PCI-X as the abbreviation for PCIe really makes me mad. A while back someone asked about getting a PCI-X graphics card, I was confused until I realized he didn't know the proper abbreviation. They I just got ticked off that he continued to use the PCI-X abbreviation even after being corrected by several members of these forums.
I think the industry is more stupid by actually having something like this which is easily confusable.
It seems alright to me that people would want to shorten PCI-Express to something like PCI-X. Perhaps PCI-e should have been called PCI2 or Fast PCI
Actually, I believe regular "PCI" is actually PCI 2.2 these days. So going down the numbering road wouldn't help much.
The goofy thing was how they named PCI-X, *then* came up with "PCI Express". If you don't know what PCI-X is (and most people don't), but you do know of the existence of something called "PCI Express", you would naturally think that PCI-X is the abbreviation for PCI Express if you saw it written somewhere. Either they should have picked a better name in the first place for PCI-X, or come up with something else for PCI Express that wouldn't get confused as easily. Of course, this is what you get with design by committee -- bland names that all blend together.
Interestingly, SCSI followed your second suggestion; there's SCSI, Fast SCSI, Fast Wide SCSI, Ultra Fast Wide SCSI, etc. Most of them are referred to by their rated speeds nowadays, though (ie, SCSI-40, SCSI-80, SCSI-160, SCSI-320, etc.)