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CPU Naming Scheme?

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cessna152

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AMD processors have been named after horse breeds such as the Palamino and Thoroughbred. Do the Intel processors follow some naming scheme?
 

Intel used to code name their processors after places (cities, rivers, etc) in the pacific northwest region. I am not sure if they are still doing this.
 
I don't think the more modern AMD CPU cores are named after breeds of horse.

Barton?
Winchester?
Clawhammer?
Newcastle?
Paris?

There seems little rhyme or reason to those, more recent, core names.
 
Yeah, I liked names like Sledgehammer and Clawhammer. Those were names with moxy. Winchester? Barton? Baahhhh
I think they should name their processors after tools. Miter Saw, Chainsaw, Screwdriver (double pun for software), PneumatiVac Air Operated Fluid Evacuator Processor (MMMMMMMM Fluid Evacuator) I am just being goofy. No reply is desired or requested
 
Originally posted by: michaelpatrick33
Yeah, I liked names like Sledgehammer and Clawhammer. Those were names with moxy. Winchester? Barton? Baahhhh
I think they should name their processors after tools. Miter Saw, Chainsaw, Screwdriver (double pun for software), PneumatiVac Air Operated Fluid Evacuator Processor (MMMMMMMM Fluid Evacuator) I am just being goofy. No reply is desired or requested
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But then Apple Computing would come out with a commercial that shows a Chainsaw or miter saw getting run over by a giant truck and say:



"If their chip is a chainsaw...

*crunch*

...ours is a bull dozer"

 
My Clawhammer has balls of steel. Unlike the Prescott, which is a snobby lurpy kid's name.
The prescott should have been called Helios, for obvious reasons.
 
I think it was just the K7s that had horse names. One of the k6 cores was codenamed chompers. It looks like the K8 cores after the initial hammers are code named after cities now(winchester, paris, newcastle).
 
Originally posted by: MadMac

Intel used to code name their processors after places (cities, rivers, etc) in the pacific northwest region. I am not sure if they are still doing this.
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If I remember correctly, they have all been rivers.
Either way, I liked the old naming scheme better. You could always tell exactly what type of chip it was. P5, P54, P55, P6, K5, K6, K7, K8... Of course, I think that was the primary reason they moved away from that.
 
The amiga series of computers used girls names for their chips, apart from the cias and cpus, and ( i think) all of their circuit boards had lyrics/titles of queen songs stamped on them.
 
Originally posted by: MadEye2
The amiga series of computers used girls names for their chips, apart from the cias and cpus, and ( i think) all of their circuit boards had lyrics/titles of queen songs stamped on them.
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Who Wants To Live Forever?

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If You Cant Beat Them?

Another One Bites The Dust?

Amiga was a great company. Just a pity they faded out.
 
Originally posted by: Pocatello
Another One Bites The Dust, how prophetic for Amiga.
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Go in to an amiga discussion forum and say that. They'll flame your knackers off. The poor deluded sods...
 
Originally posted by: MadEye2
Originally posted by: Pocatello
Another One Bites The Dust, how prophetic for Amiga.
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Go in to an amiga discussion forum and say that. They'll flame your knackers off. The poor deluded sods...
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Having a stable and powerful (for the time) platform is deluded? Ive had much more fun playing Amiga games than I have playing PC games. Graphics have improved tenfold and perhaps AI has improved a lot but there is no replacing the gameplay in those games.
 
You said it yourself - "for the time". Don't get me wrong, I love the Amiga, but it is a long time dead, and if you say anything like that in an Amiga forum they'll shoot you.
 
Originally posted by: MadEye2
You said it yourself - "for the time". Don't get me wrong, I love the Amiga, but it is a long time dead, and if you say anything like that in an Amiga forum they'll shoot you.
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And for good reason. If Amiga had have made it this far, they'd still be competitive.

Amiga CD32..... <sigh>
 
I had a CD32. It had 2 good games - Pirates Gold! and Heimdall 2. The rest were just A1200 games and so no one was interested - not when you can get pirated copies for free on the 1200.

The Amiga is still about, but it's still being passed around different companies who seem to be completely apathetic to it and it's suffering from "new" hardware that's a few years out of date but still costs more than current IBM compatable stuff. I'd love to get a siamese system set up, though.
 
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