Where Intelk Gets its names (Score 0)

Alright! The Itanium 64.

How do they come up with these processor names, you ask? An astute question, one that requires some of Intel and AMD's most closely-kept company secrets. A friend of mine who used to work for Intel managed to smuggle the following Perl script out, shortly before he was fired. Here it is:

#!/bin/perl

# Copyright (C) 1997 Intel Corporation
# This is a proprietary Intel perl script.

@prefix = ( "Pent", "It", "Max", "Ath", "Cort", "Trit" );
@suffix = ( "ium", "alon", "ex", "anium", "oricon", "agon",
"on", "eres", "obos", "ymede", "itan", "erion" );
@tag = ( "II", "III", "IV", "Pro", "MMX", "Deluxe" );

srand;
printf( "%s%s %s\n", $prefix[rand 6], $suffix[rand 12], $tag[rand 6] );

So if we run this script, we can see where the names come from:

sg1 237% ./pnames.pl
Cortium II
sg1 238% ./pnames.pl
Pentalon IV
sg1 239% ./pnames.pl
Penteres III
sg1 240% ./pnames.pl
Athalon Pro
sg1 241% ./pnames.pl
Pentitan II
sg1 242% ./pnames-pl
Maxymede MMX

Please show discretion when you refer this script to others. It is, after all, an Intel proprietary secret and should therefore only be shared with others on a "need-to-know" basis.