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From: neighorn@qiclab.UUCP (Steve Neighorn)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Intel announces P9 as 80386SX
Message-ID: <1396@qiclab.UUCP>
Date: 19 Jun 88 20:46:37 GMT
References: <6560@cup.portal.com> <56872@sun.uucp>
Reply-To: neighorn@qiclab.UUCP (Steve Neighorn)
Organization: Qic Laboratories, Portland, Oregon.
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In article <56872@sun.uucp> david@sun.uucp (David DiGiacomo) writes:
: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!).

Thank you for adding to the technical content of the architecture group.
Poking fun at the Intel nomenclature is truly a relevant subject that
needs further discussion. Besides, we all need a little extra SPARC in
our daily news reading. :-)

Seriously speaking, it does take a road map to keep up with all those
seemingly arbitrary identifications being given to new processors. I
don't think Intel is any more guilty of this than any other manufacturer. 
-- 
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