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- From: goudreau@gotham.rtp.dg.com (Bob Goudreau)
- Subject: Re: Questionnaire
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.052551.3888@dg-rtp.dg.com>
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- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 92 05:25:51 GMT
- References: <1992Nov16.172156.9178@athena.mit.edu> <Bxtzwt.BB6@cs.dal.ca> <alien.018x@acheron.amigans.gen.nz>
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- In article <alien.018x@acheron.amigans.gen.nz> alien@acheron.amigans.gen.nz (Ross Smith) writes:
- >In article <Bxtzwt.BB6@cs.dal.ca> jarrous@ug.cs.dal.ca (GHASSAN GSJ JARROUS) writes:
- >>
- >> b) Would you buy an 80586 machine within a year of their
- >> introduction ? Yes _ No _
- >
- > There's no such chip. Intel have officially named their new chip
- > "Pentium", to get around the court ruling that a number can't be a
- > registered trademark.
-
- So who said "Intel 80586"? I've seen some articles claiming that
- at least one chip-clone maker (AMD) is considering using the "586"
- moniker for its Pentium clone -- customers allegedly like the
- implication of continuity from the company's current "386" and "486"
- models.
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