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David Firth <david@signus.demon.co.uk> wrote:

>David Stokes (david@dstokes.demon.co.uk) wrote:
>: IBM were rumoured to be bringing out a clock-tripled processor first through her daughter company, Cyrix. Since they were 
>: planning to call it the DX3, Intel jumped on the bandwagon and called their's the DX4 to make it easier for people to 
>: distinguish between them(!). In the end, IBM did not want their processor to sound inferior, and so Cyrix named their's the 
>: DX4 too. How ridiculous!

>Maybe they were in binary mode

>| bit 2 | bit 1 | bit 0 |
>|  (4)  |  (2)  |  (1)  |
>+-------+-------+-------+
>|  DX4  |  DX2  |  DX1  |

>DX4 is thus clock tripled, a clock quadrupled chip would therefore
>be a DX8 ;-)

I guess by that logic a Pentium-100 (66 MHz externally I think) is a
P24-DX2.828 (DX3 on an early Pentium ;) )