Re: [TCLUG:16583] AMD. It's funny. Laugh.

[Tim Neu <tim@tneu.visi.com>]

On Mon, 24 Apr 2000, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote:

> >Someone at AMD has a good sense of humor - after
> >an incredible quarter, AMD has starting producing
> >"giga-bucks" that are worth $10 at the AMD cafeteria.
> 
>         a *giga*-buck that's worth $10... that's inflation for you. ;>

$1=100 cents
$10=1000 cents, hence "giga-buck". 

(that would be my guess anyway!)

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