Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 18 Oct 2000 13:09:34 +0200 | From | Markus Pfeiffer <> | Subject | Re: test10-pre3 |
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"Mike A. Harris" wrote: > > On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, Michael H. Warfield wrote: > > >> > On Mon, 16 Oct 2000, davej@suse.de wrote: > >> > > On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, Mikael Pettersson wrote: > > > >> > > Why Intel chose family 15 is still beyond me though. > > > >> > IV is 15 if you just translate the symbols, but ignore the meaning > >> > either that or someone was smoking alot of crack. > > > >> Huh? IV == 4. XV == 15. > > > >> I = 1, V = 5, X = 10, L = 50, C = 100, D = 500, M = 1000... > > It's RNCD: Roman Numeral Coded Decimal. The new standard for > information interchange. A new proprietary feature of Intel > CPU's that will bring new high performance web sites to the reach > of the masses! Now you can access these special custom websites > only if you have a real Intel CPU! That is because other CPU's > >from AMD, etc.. do not yet have the high technological edge of > "Roman Numeral Technology Extensions(TM)" (RMTE). > > Rumor mill has it though that AMD refuses to pay Intel royalties > for this new technology and is coming out with their own version > called RM-NOW! (TM) which does everything Intel's does, but > faster, and with less silicon and heat dissipation. > > Just beware of the CPU Mhz ratings on these new processors. They > are given in roman numerals. >
Intel marketing (c)(r)tm has said that its not Pentium IV but Pentium 4 (officially) ... I bet one can find numeral puns everywhere ... (look at kernel ...) My suspicion is that the Pentium 4 will be Intels latest IA32 Processor familiy (or at least should be if there wasnt this AMD thing (<- note humor, please) And I think its not too bad. perhaps they put all their clever heads into IA64 Processor department and IA32 only got beginners ... :-)
cheers Markus
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