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In article <yal.4.0006DA49@lingua.cltr.uq.oz.au>, yal@lingua.cltr.uq.oz.au (Yvette Lian) writes:

  Yvette> Just as a point of semantics here, the DX4-100 is actually a
  Yvette> clock-TRIPLED 33MHz CPU.  Not 25MHz.  I'm told the reason
  Yvette> Intel used DX-4 as opposed to DX-3 is that some other
  Yvette> company was using the DX3 notation.  To be strictly correct,
  Yvette> all DX4-100 machines are actually DX3-99, but they're
  Yvette> referred to as 4-100s because dx3 was already in use.

As I recall, the reason for this inconsistency has to do with
copyright issues.  Intel tried to copyright 386, 486, 586, ... and the
court decided that a numbering scheme that just reflected version
sequence was not copyrightable.  Intel therefore named the successor
to the DX2 "DX4" - which had nothing to do with version numbering, or
clock speed, or *anything* - it was just a name, and as such it was
copyrightable.  

Moises

P.S> Maybe it was "trademark-able", rather than "copyright-able"...
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