The Khronos Group Filed A Trademark On "Vulkan" API

[pijaczek]

I know that, but api name is VULKAN... as far as we deducate this it can be only german, danish, slovenian or croat word ( or serbian OK ).

or Bosnian (Vulkan), or Czech (Vulk?n)... ;p

[dungeon]

or Bosnian (Vulkan), or Czech (Vulk?n)... ;p

Or Khronos (Vulkan) ... someone from Chronos does not like C from begenning it seems

Similar, for those who remember what KDE meant at first, it was Kool Desktop Enviroment

[mwendt]

Even in places where we spell "volcano" as "Volcano" Vulcan is known as the Roman god of fire.

And, not forgetting, the god of Metal bashing.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vulcan_(mythology)

[pijaczek]

Or Khronos (Vulkan) ... someone from Chronos does not like C from begenning it seems

or could not decide: Kronos (Titan) or Chronos (God)

[gens]

Can be Russian as well. Russian programmers don't write code in Cyrillic. Except when they use language like 1C.

sounds fun to read

[dungeon]

or could not decide: Kronos (Titan) or Chronos (God)

Gotcha, Khronos because they could not decide right mostly because of different parties involved and on time

When will be next big eruption?

[bridgman]

We can ask bridgman to answer, to know for sure . Who is the man from AMD who gives that name for API?

I'll ask around, but why do we think the name came from AMD ? It was a Khronos trademark application, wasn't it ?

[DebianLinuxero]

Star Trek to the bones

Kronos is the Klingon Empire capital.

Vulkan is the the world of Spock.

So, which would be the name of the next API?

Andoria?

Romula?

[peppercats]

Pretty good chance GLNext is going to be mantle.

It's not a reference to star trek

[dungeon]

I'll ask around, but why do we think the name came from AMD ? It was a Khronos trademark application, wasn't it ?

Because Vulkan API works best on Volcanic Islands GPUs, isn't it So, AMD is company talking something about volcans for his GPU products lately, VI is current generation and it will be next eruptions in the name of the same series isn't it