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Notes on the Pentium's microcode circuitry

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180 points leotravis10 | 1 comments | 31 Mar 25 18:35 UTC | HN request time: 0.406s | source
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kens ◴[31 Mar 25 18:51 UTC] No.43538380[source]▶
Author here for your Pentium questions :-)
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CalRobert ◴[31 Mar 25 20:01 UTC] No.43539219[source]▶
Why wasn’t the Pentium’s successor the Sexium?
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kens ◴[31 Mar 25 20:19 UTC] No.43539448[source]▶
Ha ha. Internally, the successor to the Pentium (P5) had the codename P6, but it was called the Pentium Pro externally rather than anything six-related.

Instead, Intel decided to go with an incomprehensible system of naming: Pentium Overdrive, Pentium MMX, Pentium Pro, Pentium II, Pentium III, Pentium III Xeon, Pentium D, Pentium M, Pentium Extreme Edition, etc. Good luck trying to figure out the ordering of these processors.

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1. kragen ◴[31 Mar 25 22:09 UTC] No.43540510[source]▶
E5200.