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- From: lpeters@postmaster@hq.af.mil (Leslie D Peters)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
- Subject: Re: Let's speculate about the 586
- Message-ID: <12726@hq.hq.af.mil>
- Date: 5 Nov 92 19:50:48 GMT
- References: <1992Oct26.224156.29098@access.usask.ca> <1992Oct27.032122.29849@ucsu.Colorado.EDU> <1992Oct28.174037.5404@tandon.com>
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- In article <1992Oct28.174037.5404@tandon.com>, tdbear@tandon.com (Tom Barrett) writes:
- |> In article <1992Oct27.032122.29849@ucsu.Colorado.EDU> bradleyt@spot.Colorado.EDU (Todd Bradley) writes:
- |> >No such device. There has never been and will never (most likely)
- |> >be a "586".
- |>
- |> Actually... it would not be surprising if AMD and/or Cyrix
- |> used this numbering scheme. Intel has been threatening all of
- |> their customers against using it, but that doesn't mean that
- |> it can't be used by another company.
- |>
- |> >| Todd Bradley -- Official Microsoft Spokesman
- |>
- |> From UCSU? hehe. Yeah, right. I'd be worried about the GG (read as
- |> SS) knocking at your door.
- |>
- |> --
- |> Tom Barrett (TDBear) tdbear@tandon.com voice: 805-378-6207
- |> Tandon Corporation 609 Science Drive Moorpark, CA 93021
- |> Sr. HW Design Engineer "War is Peace, No is Yes, And We're All Free!"
- |> [Note: TDBear is heading for Austin Texas in November!]
-
- Unless someone beats me to it, let me be the one to post the OFFICIAL
- name of the next Intel production...........Pentium (from InfoWorld
- blurb).
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