Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 18 Oct 2000 00:12:39 +0200 | From | David Weinehall <> | Subject | Re: test10-pre3 |
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On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 08:14:58AM -0400, Mark Salisbury 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...
Unless you translate the signs one by one. But that's not the correct way to do it. In that case, Pentium III would have the modelcode 0x0111...
Then again, we all know that Intel has made processors in the past that couldn't count, so I guess it's possible that they screwed up this time too :^)
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