Intel Itanium

Net Llama! netllama
Mon May 17 11:38:19 PDT 2004


Keith Morse wrote:
> On Sun, 29 Sep 2002, Jerry McBride wrote:
> 
> 
>>And what in sam-hill was on their minds to codename their 64bit alternative
>>project YAMHILL?
> 
> 
> 
> I believe Yamhill is a small town in Oregon.  I think Intel has a 
> predilection for code naming projects using Oregon cartographical 
> features.

Yup, that's pretty much it.  Just about all of their products are named 
after locations in the Pacific Northwest, mostly Oregon.

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