Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Wrong bogomips after plugging in AC power | Date | Sun, 31 Oct 1999 07:48:48 -0500 | From | "Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" <> |
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In message <004001bf2354$73480cf0$0200a8c0@dali>, "water modem" writes: +----- | > [1] Even Intel's newer chip is labeled to run at six hundred and sixty | > _seven_ megahertz[2]! If that's not a nod to the Jargon File's ``Great | > Runes'' entry, I've never seen one. | > | Intel is just avoiding "The Number of the Beast". Perhaps some superstition | in a tech company? For that matter do they avoid "13" when possible? +--->8
More likely trying to avoid superstition in people using them. Recall the problems Procter and Gamble has had over the years....
-- brandon s. allbery os/2,linux,solaris,perl allbery@kf8nh.apk.net system administrator kthkrb,heimdal,gnome,rt allbery@ece.cmu.edu carnegie mellon / electrical and computer engineering kf8nh We are Linux. Resistance is an indication that you missed the point.
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