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  1. Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!ferkel.ucsb.edu!taco!rock!stanford.edu!agate!dog.ee.lbl.gov!network.ucsd.edu!munnari.oz.au!mel.dit.csiro.au!mineng.dmpe.CSIRO.AU!dmssyd.syd.dms.CSIRO.AU!metro!socs.uts.edu.au!syzygy!jrsellec
  3. From: jrsellec@socs.uts.edu.au (j r selleck)
  4. Subject: Re: The P5 will be called the Pentium
  5. Message-ID: <jrsellec.721834585@syzygy>
  6. Keywords: PowerPC, Apple
  7. Sender: news@socs.uts.edu.au
  8. Organization: Computing Sciences, Uni of Technology, Sydney.
  9. References: <1992Nov10.221952.10085@spang.Camosun.BC.CA> <1992Nov11.085125.6257@reed.edu> <Bxpu74.7q@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>
  10. Date: 15 Nov 92 13:36:25 GMT
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  13. [lots deleted]
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  15. >No, Microprocessor wise. I hear its the renamed 68050 which they will call
  16. >the 68060 just to stay one step ahead of Intel.
  17.  
  18. I heard a fair while ago that the 68060 was going to be 128 bits.
  19. That would justify it having a name that is seen to be generation in front of intel.
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  21. [lots more deleted]
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  24. jrsellec@syzygy.socs.uts.edu.au        James Selleck
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  26.   "There are, in fact, two things: science and opinion;
  27.     the former begets knowlegde, the latter ignorance." - Hippocrates
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