Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 18:42:05 -0500 From: "David W. Chapman Jr." <dwcjr@inethouston.net> To: "Andrew Hesford" <ajh3@chmod.ath.cx>, "Chris Shenton" <chris@shenton.org> Cc: "Christopher Schulte" <christopher@schulte.org>, "Jano Lukac" <jedovaty@yahoo.com>, <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Next STABLE release going to be 4.4? Message-ID: <022101c0d1cf$2a024080$931576d8@inethouston.net> References: <20010430115213P.jkh@osd.bsdi.com> <5.1.0.14.0.20010430142817.00afcfb8@pop.schulte.org> <87lmoicc9n.fsf@thanatos.shenton.org> <20010430180108.A10937@cec.wustl.edu>
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You have to give them that, they actually did design a new core for the p4. > Now what about the P4? Is that still the 686 core? If so, the situation > is even worse now. So while Pentium 5 isn't inherently stupid (it's just > a fifth-generation pentium), it is bad for Intel because it's really the > sixth generation of Pentium chip, and it might be called a 686, 786, or > even 886. > > Boy, now I'm really confused. What ever happened to simple numbers? Intel would rather copyright something than make it simple. Its easy to market something called the pentium and its harder to compare against a competitor. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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