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AMD Athlon XP: "Lucky" Accidental Coincidences

by Anna Filatova
12/20/2001 | 07:09 PM

Do you remember, not so long ago AMD representatives claimed that the same "XP" abbreviation used in the name of their new Athlon XP processor and Windows XP was none other but a coincidence? And that "XP" in the OS name stood for "eXPerience" and in the processor name for "eXtra Performance"? If you don’t, then see this news story first. Today we had the opportunity to see with our own eyes that it might be quite profitable to take advantage of this coincidence:

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The main idea of this banner, which we found on a very solid web-site, CNET, is more than clear: there is no need to interpret it. Of course, this slogan occurred to AMD guys just by some lucky chance! :-)

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