Re: AMD planning 45nm 12-Core 'Istanbul' Processor ?

"Scott Lurndal" <scott@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
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> "Zootal" <giganews@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes:
>>> Yeah, I recall how years ago some nutcases saying things like the
>>> Pentium 3 (yes, the 3) was "already obsolete" upon release, because it
>>> did not sup****t IA64, which was set to blow X86 out of the market when
>>> it was released.
>>>
>>PIII obsolete? Hmm...trivia of the day - what microarchitecture did
Intel
>>base the core on? And what microarchitecture does the core have little
if
>>anything to do with?
>>
>
> Former:  Netburst, IIRC.
> Latter:  Anything other than netburst?
>
> scott

Um...are you sure you don't want to reverse those answers? Or do you mean 
former architecture=netburst, latter (core) = anything but?