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Re: Let's speculate about the 586

#5973
From: lpeters Leslie D Peters
Date: Thu, 05 Nov 1992 19:50
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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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From: lpeters@postmaster@hq.af.mil (Leslie D Peters)
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Subject: Re: Let's speculate about the 586
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