Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Pentium compatible processor

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The result was Merge to P5 (microarchitecture). czar ⨹ 02:34, 3 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Pentium compatible processor[edit]

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Alleged to be non-notable, article's been here for years though and seems to assert some significance, albeit in a technical capacity. I'll let the community decide what to do with it. TomStar81 (Talk) 04:22, 20 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Computing-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 16:41, 21 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Merge to ~~Pentium~~ P5 (microarchitecture). This would be a perfectly acceptable topic to discuss in that article. There was a pretty huge market for these processors back in the day, and they did attract significant coverage, though it was mostly in the form of benchmarks. For example, this article in PC Magazine is one of several articles that I found that benchmarks the various alternatives against Intel's Pentium series. This article from Infoworld also has a brief description of the K5, which it labels as a Pentium compatible CPU. This article from PC Magazine and this article from Popular Science discuss them as a group. Although it's not terribly difficult to find magazine articles on Google Books about the topic, I don't think Pentium compatible CPUs are independently notable of the Intel Pentium itself; they are always mentioned as an alternative to or benchmarked against the Pentium. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 23:38, 23 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Pentium is about an Intel brand used for processors from several different generations, with several different microarchitectures. P5 (microarchitecture) is about the microarchitecture of the original Pentium and the processors using that microarchitecture; that might be a more appropriate target for the merge, if the merge were to be done. Guy Harris (talk) 03:07, 26 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

That makes sense to me. I guess I should have read the merge target more carefully. Merge target updated. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 18:31, 26 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, NorthAmerica¹⁰⁰⁰ 20:29, 27 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Merge to P5 (microarchitecture) per the comments of NinjaRobotPirate. StewdioMACK (talk) 15:04, 28 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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