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

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From: lc... Lawrence Chee
Date: Tue, 26 Sep 1995 00:00

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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.

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From: lc...@csc.com (Lawrence Chee)
Subject: Re: Intel names P6 "Pentium Pro", not "Pentium2"
Date: 1995/09/26
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