You didn’t ruffled any feathers.
Just that the way you phrased made it sound like you are not gonna believe rick.
More of a eyes-wide-opened look than anything… no one is angry,
I’m certainly not angry. Here’s a happy face 
. I think it’s important to inject occasional “how things are in the world” in this forum. Product names are chosen for 1) marketing potential, and 2) I can’t think what #2 would be. Did you all notice that the iPhone went from model 8 to model 10 (excuse me, “X”)? Part of that might be that the Samsung Galaxy S9 was coming out soon, and 10 is bigger (and better!) than 9. I think they missed a bet by not jumping straight to 11.
While VEX did originally call the Cortex generation VEX version 2, after it was released I don’t remember anyone (including VEX) calling it anything other than “Cortex” and the V.5 system “PIC.”
My amp goes to 11.
Windows Nein being my fave.
please don’t revive dead topics. If nobody has posted in a topic for months, then you don’t need to respond
wait v2 is cortex? or am i missing something
“V2” is not a real thing. Neither is “V4” as some people call it. The most succinct name that is accurate and avoids confusion is “Cortex system” or “Cortex control system.” If you want to be pedantic, it is the “VEX ARM® Cortex®-based Microcontroller electronics platform and control system,” but even VEX is calling it the “Cortex control system,” shortened down to “Cortex” when context allows:
See here for more information (from an official source even!) on VEX microcontrollers throughout history:
thanks for the clarification. i always called cortex “v4”, but then when someone said “v2” i was like wut
The reason I’ve avoided calling it “Cortex” is because the V5 Brain also contains an ARM Cortex CPU (a dual A9 if I remember correctly, as well as a M0 to do the ADI I think…) So calling something the “Cortex control system” is a bit misleading as it implies the V5 system doesn’t have a Cortex onboard.
But v4 (or v2 for that matter) isn’t that descriptive either, and can be ambiguous. I’ll probably stick with calling it v4 because it’s obvious that v4 comes immediately before v5.
I know that. I agree that “Cortex” is ambiguous too, but very few people seem to actually know (or care) that the V5 Brain is powered by Cortex CPUs. Also I have yet to see anyone actually confused about V5 being Cortex-powered too, especially considering how much marketing VEX did for everyone to know it as “V5.”
I think it is arguably more important to use the same naming convention used by VEX on their own website, which is “Cortex control system.”