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- From: ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Iskandar Taib)
- Subject: Re: Those Intel Processors (what is SX/DX)
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- Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 04:07:35 GMT
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- In article <18qmjkINN6b@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> dab6@po.CWRU.Edu (Douglas A. Bell) writes:
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- >In a previous article, David.Norman@ttlg.UUCP (David Norman) says:
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- ||I would like to know what the "DX" and "SX" stand for. I know how they work in hard ware, but what dos DX really stand for ?????
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- |I don't think these two terms mean anything.
- |If it does, intel has not made the meanings very well known.
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- |The joke for a while was that sx stood for 'sucks'.
- |I guess that means that dx stands for 'ducks'.
- |If there is any meaning in this, it is very cryptic.
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- I've posted this several times before but I find
- people usually find it humorous:
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- SX = SuX.
- DX = DeluXe.
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