Re: [jbovlaste] samfonxa

[Zefram <zefram@fysh.org>]

Pierre Abbat wrote:
>*A phone that a computer can talk on; a modem.
>*A computer program that is a phone that humans can talk on.
>*A phone that has a computer built in.
>Which do you prefer, and what should the others be called?

The first, approximately.  {fonxa} covers access devices to any
telecommunications network, so includes modems anyway.  {samfonxa} is an
obvious way to specify a fonxa that is specifically for use with skami.
Either have the same place structure as {fonxa}, or add a third place
"for the use of computers s1".  Strange that {fonxa} doesn't already
have a place regarding intended users.  Drop s2 because it's too far
removed from the focus.

A fonxa that is a computer program would probably have to be formed from
{samtci}, though it's a little ugly to combine {fonxa} with the more
generic {tutci} referring to the same object.  Anyway, {samtcifonxa},
"f1=t1 is a telephone/modem attached to network f2 implemented as a
program on computers including s1".  Drop t2 because it's inherently
specified by the lujvo, and drop s2 because it was dropped by {samtci}.

For "a phone that has a computer built in", I'm inclined to view it
from a different perspective, as a computer that is a phone (or has
telephony among its purposes).  For that the obvious choice is {fonskami},
"s1=f1 is a computerised telephone transceiver attached to network f2".
Drop s2 because it's inherently specified by the lujvo.  Of course,
many computerised phones have additional functions as well, that being
pretty much the point of computerising them, but we're supposing that
the *primary* purpose is telephony.

-zefram

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