From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Apr 30 16:42: 6 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from leviathan.inethouston.net (216-118-21-146.pdq.net [216.118.21.146]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6190F37B423 for ; Mon, 30 Apr 2001 16:42:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwcjr@inethouston.net) Received: from dwcjr (DWCJR.inethouston.net [216.118.21.147]) by leviathan.inethouston.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3385A10F40F; Mon, 30 Apr 2001 18:42:08 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <022101c0d1cf$2a024080$931576d8@inethouston.net> From: "David W. Chapman Jr." To: "Andrew Hesford" , "Chris Shenton" Cc: "Christopher Schulte" , "Jano Lukac" , 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> Subject: Re: Next STABLE release going to be 4.4? Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 18:42:05 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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