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- From: davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM (william E Davidsen)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.intel
- Subject: Re: Idea for the P5!
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.135830.17432@crd.ge.com>
- Date: 19 Nov 92 13:58:30 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov18.222927.20422@nas.nasa.gov>, fineberg@win31.nas.nasa.gov (Samuel A. Fineberg) writes:
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- | I think the main problem is that its done. The P5 is no longer under development
- | (though they may still be debugging it). Also, there is no P5 any more, it is
- | called the Pentium CPU. Sure the name is stupid, but its too late to change
- | that either. Maybe you should concentrate on the P6?
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- The correct name for the P5 is "Godot."
-
- I find it interesting that Intel implied that the reason the P5 is
- late is because they have all their fab lines tied up with the 486
- demand, and yet they have just announced the 486DX2-80. If this sells
- well it will tie up more fab lines.
-
- I predict that the P5 will ship in volume as soon as AMD starts
- shipping their 486, just as the 486 suddenly because more available when
- other 386 chips were shipping.
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- bill davidsen, GE Corp. R&D Center; Box 8; Schenectady NY 12345
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