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To: Road Walker who wrote (60686)	7/17/1998 7:15:00 PM
From: Proud_Infidel	Respond to of 186894

Personally, I think INTC should integrate some type of numbering scheme into the name of its MPU's so that consumers will know exactly what generation they are buying. I follow this sector and I am beginning to have a hard time. The old classification system of x86 was simple and worked. However, it could be used by anyone so INTC had to create brand awareness. Now that INTC has strong brand awareness in the Pentium, it introduces the Celeron?!?! Why not say Pentuim5, Pentium Pro6, Pentium II-7, the numbers representing where the chips would fall in the X86 classification? You get my drift. Only I have no idea where to put the Xeon. Would that be considered a 886, three iterations following the Pentium? And where would the Celeron be? BTW, I cannot believe Celeron was actaully chosen as a name for an INTC product. BK