[geeks] Dual-core Celerons? For Schizzle!

[Sridhar Ayengar]

Sheldon T. Hall wrote:
> Saith Dave K ...
>> On Jan 11, 2008 10:46 AM, Bill Bradford <mrbill at mrbill.net> wrote:
>>
>>> The 512K-cache Celerons are most likely the 1M non-Celerons 
>>> where half the cache failed QA.
>>>
>>> So, turn defective products into lesser-performing profit.
>>>
>>> Bill
>> Or the old "we don't have any orders for the 1M parts, just make the
>> 512k parts this week".
>>
>> <WayBack>
>> It is my understanding that this was the process in the old days,
>> Motorola would test test 6809 wafers at 2Mhz until they filled the
>> 68B09 orders, then test at 1.5Mhz for the 68A09 orders, and then at
>> 1Mhz for the 6809 orders.  Which is why in the latter production years
>> you could (mostly) run any of them at 2Mhz....
>>
>> Also, remember the 8Kbit DRAM that had two part numbers depending on
>> whether you were to use the upper or lower half of the 16Kbit that the
>> chip was supposed to have?
>> </WayBack>
> 
> <EvenFurtherBackMaybe>
> Remember floppies?  Actual floppy disks, not the armored 3.5" kind?  They
> came in double sided and single sided ... guess how the manufacturers
> decided which ones were which?  Right-eroonie!  They had orders for X
> double-sided floppies, so the first X that passed DS QC were DS, and the
> rest were SS.
> </geezer>

This was even the case with 3.5" floppies originally.

Peace...  Sridhar