Warp wrote:
> Chambers <ben### [at] pacificwebguycom> wrote:
>> Core 2 Duo
> 
>   I have never understood that naming. Does it have two or four cores?
> "Core 2" would imply that it has two cores. But then it has "duo", which
> seems to imply that the previous is doubled, so the total would be four
> cores?

"Core 2" is the sequal to "Core". If they'd written "Core v2" it would 
be a whole lot clearer, IMO...

Originally there was Core Solo and Core Duo. Then they improved the 
architecture and called it Core 2. AFAIK there never has been a Core 2 
Solo; the Core 2 architecture is only available in Duo or Quad.

Core v1 Solo
Core v1 Duo
Core v2 Duo
Core v2 Quad

Even more fun is the Xeon series. Old Xeons are based on the old Pentium 
design, newer ones are based on Core v1, and the newest are based on 
Core v2. And there is, apparently, no way of telling the difference 
[apart from the part numbers]...

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