Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 4 May 2008 23:31:00 +0200 (CEST) | From | Jan Engelhardt <> | Subject | Re: i387/FPU init issues... |
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On Saturday 2008-05-03 19:39, Thomas Gleixner wrote: >> great. So this NOP is indeed not generally known to all "P6 and later" >> CPUs. (the PII) > >Looks like. My analysis was wrong, as I got the P6 vs. PII/PIII >confused :) Damn unintutive numbering, I thought ARM is worse but I'm >not so sure anymore.
Guess that Intel named it Pentium II either because Hexium ("5"86:Pentium, "6"86:Hexium) would have been a strange name, or the successor to the Pentium/586 was not that great an improvement. Or something else? Always kept me wondering.
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