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To: Yougang Xiao who wrote (62426)	6/19/1999 6:26:00 PM
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Yougang - RE: "The problem with Athlon is that there is no love at first sight for such name. Few made fuss over “Lucent” or “Pentium.” If AMD came up with a better, innovative name, I guess that the “for” crowd would be much larger and only few may against the complete replacement of K7." I don't remember whether or not people made a fuss over the Pentium name. Maybe someone else can inform us. What is so non-innovative about Athlon? The "on" part? "Intel is doing wonderful business in greater China area, partly because both Pentium and Celeron sound and look great in Mandarin Chinese. Phonetically, Athlon is “ai shi lang” in Mandarin, which can be translated into “love dead wolf”, simply awful!!" That is funny! Good catch.

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