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To: rsi_boy who wrote (60541)10/26/2001 3:43:30 PM
From: milo_moraiRespond to of 275872
 
re:K9 well Cerberus, a three-headed dog or triple Hammer Core on a die. Hell Hound will be double type hammer core with 8mb L3 cache on chip, and White Wolf will be the low end if you can really say low end.

M.



To: rsi_boy who wrote (60541)10/26/2001 3:55:55 PM
From: dale_laroyRespond to of 275872
 
>I liked the horse names back when we thought they were also WW2 fighter plane names, "Spitfire" was on the right track why why palamino instead of "Hurricane", "Lightning" or "thunderbolt"<

Don't forget Corsair and Mosquito (perhaps a mobile processor).

The problem is that we just thought they were fighter planes, but AMD might have used this to their advantage by adopting fighter plane names when objections were raised to car names.



To: rsi_boy who wrote (60541)10/26/2001 4:17:55 PM
From: Tony ViolaRespond to of 275872
 
(I liked the horse names back when we thought they were also WW2 fighter plane names, "Spitfire" was on the right track why why palamino instead of "Hurricane", "Lightning" or "thunderbolt")

Because two of them conjure up images of what it looks like when the heat sink falls off? Oooohhhh, bringing up that old sore point, what a bad guy!