Richard Cownie (tich@pobox.com) on 11/17/10 wrote:
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>someone (someone@somewhere.com) on 11/17/10 wrote:
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>>The McKinley core was a perfectly sane design for its
>>era - large die 180 nm single core FSB based MPU.
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>Am I hallucinating, or wasn't the first IPF core called
>Merced ? Has that one been airbrushed out of history ?

Huh?

Merced and McKinley were independent efforts by two
different design teams. The problems of one doesn't
diminish the qualities of the other.

Unless your point is simply to throw mud...