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From: risky.Convergent.COM!israel@unislc.slc.unisys.com (Paul Israel)
Newsgroups: rec.humor.funny
Subject: Top Ten Reasons for P5 delays
Keywords: topical, original, computer, chuckle
Date: 28 Jul 92 07:20:09 GMT
This is an original from me. Honest.
Top Ten Reasons Why Intel Delayed Announcing the P5
10. Ad managers wanted time to think up a better name
for "MESI" cache coherency.
9. Hoped to outfox AMD this time by waiting for them to
release their 'P5' first.
8. Still trying to figure out how to mount a 3 foot high
cooling tower on a 2" square package.
7. Marketing's prediction that all of IBM's top executives
would be killed by space aliens, followed by IBM engineering's
insistence on a return to an Intel strategy, did not appear
to pan out.
6. Sales force needs to be retrained to sell a processor
that doesn't end in "86".
5. Can never seem to squeeze in enough byte enables.
4. Military insisted at the last minute on 8080 compatability
mode.
3. New "Break on stupid code" exception not popular with
programmers.
2. All those millions of dollars in processor R&D were
cutting into the CEO's Christmas bonus.
1. Needed to hire more lawyers first.
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