6 Jun
2005
6 Jun
'05
3:03 p.m.
On Mon, 6 Jun 2005, Jules Richardson wrote:
[btw, where did we suddenly get an 8-foot floppy
from!?]
USUALLY that its from a typo, or a cultural difference in punctuation.
I have a [damaged/unusable] platter that probably came from either a 1401
or an aftermarket drive on a 1620. It is 2 feet in diameter, but seems
larger. After I showed it to a class to emphasize Moore's law, I asked
them about their recollections of it from a week before - MOST estimated
THREE feet, and a few went as high as FOUR! But none of them thought that
it was over 5 feet, and certainly not eight.
If the 8088 has an 8 bit bus and the 8086 is 16 bits,
is there a good
reason why it didn't get named the 80816? I'm assuming that's what the
last digit in the number signifies...
Sorry, but the last digit is NOT bits. It was simply a progression:
8085, 8086, 8087 (FPU for 8086), 8088 (8086 chopped down to be cheap)
There does not appear to be any reliable pattern to the intel numbering.
There are conflicting accounts for the naming of the 4004, 8008, etc.
At least the Pentium name is reasonably documented (to be more easily
trademarkable (inspite of the Pentaxium))
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