286, 386, 486... where would modern Intel processors fit?

[Capt.Ridley_s_Shooting_Party]

@DanBlather

That work was done in Israel away from all the BS engineers had to put up with when working on the flag chip processor. When it was demonstrated to have better performance it became the flag ship processor line.

Can you expand? What BS?

[BJMoose]

@Phase42

And of course, either “Sexium” or “Hexium” would have had the Christian fundies screaming that the new chips were either designed for downloading porn (the Sexium) or to be a tool for witchcraft (the Hexium)

(I’m not joking. You should read some of the stuff I’ve come across where some fundies have called computers “satanic” after finding out that they have little programs called “daemons” in them.)

Actually, it’s not just the fundies. First time I saw CIDAEMON.EXE listed in my Task Manager, I wondered if it was some sort of malware.

What is a daemon, anyway?

[beowulff]

@BJMoose

Actually, it’s not just the fundies. First time I saw CIDAEMON.EXE listed in my Task Manager, I wondered if it was some sort of malware.

What is a daemon, anyway?

A daemon is a “faceless” background process (like a print spooler): Daemon (computing) - Wikipedia

[Sunspace]

@Phase42

And of course, either “Sexium” or “Hexium” would have had the Christian fundies screaming that the new chips were either designed for downloading porn… or… to be a tool for witchcraft…

They could have called it the “Sectium”…

[DanBlather]

@Dominic Mulligan

Can you expand? What BS?

Just the usual crap that comes in corporate life: endless meetings, changing requirements, heavy process, etc. I heard all of this second-hand, so no cite I am afraid.