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Processor lineage
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8088 - we liek 8
8086 - we're not so hot on 8 any more
80186 - above the chicken
80286 - twice, above the chicken (16 ISA compatable)
80386sx - now with increased bits
80386dx - now with cop rocessor
80486 - can actually run windows
Pentium - management realizes people can't remember numbers, assumes FDIV error is okay
Pentium Pro: management decides Intel needs to appear more marketable to professionals, because they all use Suns and SGIs at this point due to their abilities to actually calculate correctly
Pentium II: management changes their mind about people not remembering numbers
Pentium III: the revenge
Pentium IV: we should have stopped at III
Pentium Xeon: Brought to you by the international conspiracy of aliens from Andromeda and Rambus (tm) (r) (patent no. 21516161)
Pentium M: management realizes individual letters exist
Pentium ____: now in macs
Posted by Reverend Tedward Q. Porktanker @ 2006-01-22 20:34:00
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