Re: Intel names P6 "Pentium Pro", not "Pentium2"

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From: fm... Frederick Y Mah
Date: Sat, 23 Sep 1995 00:00

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mcar...@freenet.columbus.oh.us (Michael Carmack) writes:

>DOYAMA  JASON (doy...@ecf.toronto.edu) wrote:

>: My personal theory is that they didn't want to give a new name to the 
>: Pentium because it runs 16-bit application slower.

>I think they just didn't have any good names to choose from.  If the P5 is
>the "Pentium", the P6 would either be the "Hextium" (sounds dumb) or the
>"Sextium" (I don't think anyone's surprised that this one never got off
>the drawing board).

>I personally think that Pentium-*anything* is inappropriate for the P6. 
>It's a new chip, not a new version of the Pentium.

It is for marketing reasons they maintain the Pentium name.  Apparently
in some survey done about 85% of the people recognized the Pentium name.
With all these new CPUs from Cyrix, AMD, Nexgen, etc..  Name recognition
is important.


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Fred Mah  ---  fm...@ecn.purdue.edu
http://widget.ecn.purdue.edu/~fmah

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From: fm...@widget.ecn.purdue.edu (Frederick Y Mah)
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Date: 1995/09/23
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