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Article #6623Re: Intel names P6 "Pentium Pro", not "Pentium2"
From: pat... Patrick Labine
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 1995 00:00
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 1995 00:00
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lc...@csc.com (Lawrence Chee) writes: >Patrick Labine (pat...@cs.ualberta.ca) wrote: >: Pentium Pro? What the hell is that. I mean that's about as lame as the >: SB "pro" that came out a couple of years ago. Shoulda called it >: the "HEXIUM" processor. >If you people knew your numbers you would have realized that >the logical name of the sucessor to the Pentium would have >been the Sextium (spelled correctly). Intel chickened out >on naming a chip which had the potential to be "faster and >sexier" than the Pentium. A HEXagon has 6 sides. A PENTagon has five. So, *logically* it should be called a HEXium. (spelled the way I want) Mellow out. This IS an action game group. What I want to know is how it's going to affect games. I'll stop spamming now. Pat
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From: pat...@cs.ualberta.ca (Patrick Labine) Subject: Re: Intel names P6 "Pentium Pro", not "Pentium2" Date: 1995/09/28 Message-ID: <44de6v$jr5@scapa.cs.ualberta.ca> X-Deja-AN: 110917027 references: <1995Sep20.172827.2783@titan.sfasu.edu> <43qf8l$8j6@steel.interlog.com> <43qtu1$kab@mozo.cc.purdue.edu> <4480mr$e1n@scapa.cs.ualberta.ca> <449qqj$alv@explorer.csc.com> organization: Computing Science, U of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit