At 11:50 AM 25/10/95 -0700, [log in to unmask] wrote:
>Why?  Is Pentium Pro a bad name?  Should they have come up with something
>totally differnt?  The P6 is just an evolution of the P5, not a totally
>new architecture like the P7 is.  The P7 will almost certainly get a
>Pentium-something name as well.  Intel has spent a *lot* of money getting
>name recognition for "Pentium" and the P7 will need to stress compatibility
>more than anything else when it comes out.  The P7 will be a "Pentium"
>for the same reason that the PA-RISC MPE systems were called HP3000s and
>not HP4000s or somesuch.
 
Just a thought, but for consistency shouldn't the P6 be a "Hexium"? :)
Hmmm, possible bad connotations in that.  Especially with 'Hex' also being
the ancient Greek for witch or hag!
 
(It's slipped my mind what the ancient Greek for '7' is %)
 
And it was with the Pentium I believe we also got the introduction of the
little fans connected directly to the CPU.  So how far off is it before we
get the first water-cooled CPUs - P7? P8??  Maybe on the first Josephson
Junction chip PCs?  By then Windows will probably require two CDs!
 
Cheers.
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