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

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From: dja... Douglas Jacobs
Date: Fri, 06 Oct 1995 00:00

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Goat_Cheese (bo...@dumbo.cc.utexas.edu) wrote:
: NO,NO,NO,NO,NO, it should be called the "RECTUM!" hehehehe

: 	Yeah, that's it the ....RECTUM 150MHZ 

: Imagine, your upgrading your rectum? yikes!

Eeww...that'd add whole new meanings to phrases like "Caching", and
"pipe lining" ;)

I agree though...PentiumPro is a stupid name.  I think the folks in
marketting came up with this one...shoulda let the engineers name it.
then it'd be something memorable ;)

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From: dja...@umich.edu (Douglas Jacobs)
Subject: Re: Intel names P6 "Pentium Pro", not "Pentium2"
Date: 1995/10/06
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