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Oh to remember mid-90s humor How many Intel engineers does it take to change a light bulb? 0.99999999
by mega_dingus 2y ago
Oh to remember mid-90s humor
How many Intel engineers does it take to change a light bulb? 0.99999999
- zoky 2y agoWhy didn’t Intel call the Pentium the 586? Because they added 486+100 on the first one they made and got 585.999999987.
- Dalewyn 2y agoAmusing joke, but it actually is effectively called the 586 because the internal name is P5 and Penta from which Pentium is derived is 5.[1] Incidentally, Pentium M to Intel Core through 16th gen Lunarrow Lake all identify as P6 ("Family 6") for 686 because they are all based off of the Pentium 3. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_(original) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_(original)
- nayuki 2y agoAlso, as per the page: > Intel used the Pentium name instead of 586, because in 1991, it had lost a trademark dispute over the "386" trademark, when a judge ruled that the number was generic.
- xattt 2y agoYou’re missing the fact that Intel wanted to differentiate itself from the growing IA-32 clone chips from AMD and Cyrix. 586 couldn’t be trademarked, but Pentium could.
- zusammen 2y ago[dead]