Now AMD follows Intel's lead (April Fools)

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Grumble <invalid@kma.eu.org> wrote in message news:<c4h3t6$qfv$1@news-rocq.inria.fr>...
> Black Jack wrote:
>
> > AMD may begin adopting Intel's model numbering scheme for its own
> > Athlon 64's. Strange, AMD adopts model numbers and then Intel follows,
> > and then AMD retweaks to fit Intel. Well, so much for the PR-rating
> > system being an indicator of relative performance from an Athlon
> > Thunderbird. :-)
>
> http://theregister.co.uk/content/51/36722.html

Ah, so it's an April Fool's joke! You know this joke was much easier
to believe than Google's recent non-April Fool's Joke announcement
that it's going to offer a webmail service that will allow you to
store upto 1GB of stuff!

Here's the Google announcement:

http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mymod/hdln/ [...] _google_dc

Yousuf Khan