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From: daver@nsc.nsc.com (Dave Raulino)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.nsc.32k
Subject: Re: what's next???
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Date: Thu, 20-Aug-87 20:56:55 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug 20 20:56:55 1987
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Summary: CPUs are odd

In article <4814@jade.BERKELEY.EDU> srm@violet.berkeley.edu (Richard Mateosian) writes:
>>Complete this sequence:  032,332,532,?   (6? 7? 8?)
>
>132 and 232 were actually contemplated products. They just never came out.
>
>432 was deliberately skipped, since certain folks thought that by the time
>it (now the 532) came out, people would not yet have forgotten a disaster
>that once bore the number 432.
>
Actually, the number sequence is based on the assumption that a for a "pure"
processor, the lead digit is an odd number (I'm not going to argue whether 
0 is odd/even).  The 132 was an 032 set up for dual processing, 332 is
the 2nd generation, 532 the third, etc. (I'll leave it as an exercise for
the reader to determine the name of the next member of the family).

By the way, I'm in marketing, so even if this is not true, it now is because
I said so.  So there... 8-)

And anyway, about that 432 comment, I don't know if that would matter much.

I mean, Audi used to build a Fox, now VW does.  (Okay, they're sort of the
same company).

Champagne wishes and Caviar dreams.

-- 

Thank you for your continued support --

                     Dave R.