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- Subject: re: AXP
- Message-ID: <1992Nov9.132622.2467@inland.com>
- From: allebrandi@inland.com (Tom Allebrandi)
- Date: 9 Nov 92 13:26:22 CST
- References: <27A00A11_00076BD8.0096334CAD64E4C0$203_3@UK.AC.KCL.PH.IPG>
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- In article <27A00A11_00076BD8.0096334CAD64E4C0$203_3@UK.AC.KCL.PH.IPG>, SYSMGR@IPG.PH.KCL.AC.UK writes:
- > "It doesn't stand for anything". Well, we can all speculate.
- >
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- I was speculating about this over the weekend...
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- > A: Alpha, or Advanced.
- >
-
- Yep.
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- > X: The marketing types know that all things being equal, putting an X
- > in the name makes it sell better. It's, as they say, seXy.
- >
- > In this case it alo provides a link back to the much loved VAX: in
- > that case it was supposed to mean eXtension ...
- >
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- Actually, since the privileged instructions in the processor are tailored
- to the operating system by creating a PALcode set, how about
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- eXtensible
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- > P: Processor, or power. Advanced seX Power? Amazing the way you can think
- > like a marketing droid when you want to :-) :-) :-)
-
- Yep.
-
- --- Tom
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