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From: david@sun.uucp (David DiGiacomo)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Intel announces P9 as 80386SX
Message-ID: <56872@sun.uucp>
Date: 16 Jun 88 22:10:42 GMT
References: <6560@cup.portal.com>
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc. - Mtn View, CA
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In article <6560@cup.portal.com> mslater@cup.portal.com writes:
>At first glance, it seems odd that Intel chose to call the chip the 386SX,
>a designation that sounds more like a Japanese sports car than a
>microprocessor chip.

Not at all!  Intel has a long history of giving the same name to different
things (iRMX-xx), giving different names (and prices) to the same thing
(8275, 8276]), arbitrarily renaming second source parts (8274), giving new
products names similar to successful but completely unrelated products
(e.g.  82586, 82786, 80960), and of course creative yet truly stupid new
concepts in naming (iAPX!).