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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (55169)	4/11/1999 8:13:00 PM
From: Process Boy	Respond to of 1572946

Ten - how hard are they working you over there? Cucumberon? <ggg> EOM.

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (55169)	4/11/1999 8:26:00 PM
From: Kashish King	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1572946

Pentium is a rip-off of the metalic elements: germanium, gallium, indium, lithium, titanium and of course the fictitious Pentium with its 5 layers. Nothing could have been more simple than concocting a name like that. The next thing you know they'll be hitting on the argon, radon or xenon elements to scoff a cool name, or have they done so already? Intel probably has a copyright on the periodic table, they applied for patents on the quadratic equation, the area of a circle and the volume of a sphere but somebody tipped off the patent office before they could rubber stamp it. BTW, there was a thread called AMD for Picknicking Wits; whatever happened to that?

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (55169)	4/11/1999 8:44:00 PM
From: Mani1	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572946

Tenchusatsu Re << If I recall correctly, the name "Celeron" came from Lexicon Branding, Inc., the same company that came up with the widely popular "Pentium" brand name.>> That's a way to ruin a good reputation! Celeron just sounds real bad and I do not know why. May be it is more the case of reputation making the name bad, than vice versa. Mani