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- From: ak@ananke.stgt.sub.org (Andreas Kaiser)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Subject: The P5 will be called the Pentium
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- Message-ID: <721066425snx@ananke.stgt.sub.org>
- References: <Bx5KDn.H6q@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>
- Date: Fri, 06 Nov 92 16:13:45 GMT
- Organization: ananke
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- In article <Bx5KDn.H6q@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> varney@sage.cc.purdue.edu writes:
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- > I saw a report on this on CNN Headline. They said that intel's
- > reason for naming the chip non-numerically is that they have been unable
- > to trademark names like 386 and 486, so anyone could come out with a
- > chip and call it a 386. With a name like pentium, trademark will be possible,
- > so no-one will be able to come out with a chip and call it a pentium.
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- But I'm sure there will be someone who calls his chips a 586dx! Let us
- see what chips will be used by users who upgraded thru 88 to 286 to 386
- to 486 :-)
-
- Gruss, Andreas
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