On 10/30/2010 7:07 PM, zfs user wrote:
I did it deliberately - how dumb are these product managers that they
name products with weird names and not expect them to be abused? On
the other hand, if you do a search for mangy cours you'll find a bunch
of hits where it is clearly a misspelling on serious tech articles,
postings, etc.
"I am seeing some spotty performance with my new Mangy Cours CPU"...
It is like they are asking for it. I think they be better off doing
something like Intel core arch names using city names "Santa Rosa", etc.
On 10/30/10 3:49 PM, Eugen Leitl wrote:
On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 02:10:49PM -0700, zfs user wrote:
1 Mangy-Cours CPU
^^^^^
Dunno whether deliberate, or malapropism, but I love it.
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Well,
First off, it's "Magny Cours", not "Mangy Cours". Though, to an
English-speaker, the letter reversal (and mispronunciation) come easily.
AMD does use City names. Just not American ones. Magny-Cours is a place
in France (near a well-known Formula One circuit). So far as I can
tell, their (recent) platform names seem to be English nouns, and the
CPU architectures European ones.
But who knows how people think of codenames. Frankly, I get really
annoyed with Intel's penchance to put a codename on every little last
thing, and change them at the drop of a hat. I get Intel pre-production
hardware here, and there's a half-dozen codenames on each server. Makes
keeping track of what's what a nightmare.
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