Re: Wrong bogomips after plugging in AC power

Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH (allbery@kf8nh.apk.net)
Sun, 31 Oct 1999 07:48:48 -0500

In message <004001bf2354$73480cf0$0200a8c0@dali>, "water modem" writes:
+-----
| > [1] Even Intel's newer chip is labeled to run at six hundred and sixty
| > _seven_ megahertz[2]! If that's not a nod to the Jargon File's ``Great
| > Runes'' entry, I've never seen one.
| >
| Intel is just avoiding "The Number of the Beast". Perhaps some superstition
| in a tech company? For that matter do they avoid "13" when possible?
+--->8

More likely trying to avoid superstition in people using them. Recall the
problems Procter and Gamble has had over the years....

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