• real_squids@sopuli.xyz
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    4 days ago

    It wasn’t arbitrary, they named them after the number of pins. Which is fine but kinda confusing for your average consumer

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      4 days ago

      Which is a pretty arbitrary naming convention since the number of pins in a socket doesn’t really tell you anything especially when that naming convention does NOT get applied to the processors that plug into them.