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04/25/2003 Entry: "What about Big Toe?"

What about Big Toe? No wait - that's a TCP/IP Offload Engine - don't you love it when acronyms get subsumed into other acronyms?

The ARM (Advanced RISC Processor - there's another embedded acronym) processor has a subset of its instruction set compressed from 32 to 16 bits, allowing a smaller footprint in memory and thus lower cost devices. What do they call this small ARM subsidiary? Why, the Thumb, of course!

http://www.arm.com/armtech/Thumb?OpenDocument

I don't think that THUMB is an acronym for anything ARM specific, just punny.

And I suppose they'll write all their failure/error handlers to the "Bird" interface - for the middle finger that device drivers like to flip at each other and the hardware.

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