From owner-freebsd-stable Tue May 1 1:32:23 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from clueless.redbus.aaisp.net (clueless.redbus.aaisp.net [213.161.73.195]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 18D6837B423 for ; Tue, 1 May 2001 01:32:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jon@witchspace.com) Received: from zebedee.innovision-group.com (HELO:garfield.innovisiongroup.com) by clueless.redbus.aaisp.net for freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG; Tue, 01 May 2001 09:32:09 +0100 Message-ID: <004b01c0d219$297ac160$650e850a@innovisiongroup.com> From: "Jonathan Belson" To: "David W. Chapman Jr." Cc: 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> <022101c0d1cf$2a024080$931576d8@inethouston.net> Subject: Re: Next STABLE release going to be 4.4? Date: Tue, 1 May 2001 09:31:40 +0100 Organization: Jon's Place 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 Hiya > > 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. The amusing thing is that he logical successor to the 'Pentium' would be called the 'Sexium'. -- C-YA Jon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message