🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <27607@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU>, jdb@reef.cis.ufl.edu (Brian K. W. Hook) writes:
>In article <asm3y2w164w@infopls.chi.il.us> greg@infopls.chi.il.us (Greg Clawson) writes:
>|>phil@brahms.amd.com (Phil Ngai) writes:
>|>
>|>> I just saw an Am386(tm) running at 33 MHz. It ran flawlessly and even
>|>> [stuff deleted]
>|>> (Am386 is a trademark of Advanced Micro Devices)
>And whatyou refer to as the AMD i386 *IS* the Am386.  "i386" is a trademark
>of Intel Corporation and thus AMD cannot use that name.  however, they may
>use "386".

Interesting to note, Intel screwed up and only registered 'i386' as a
trademark, but not '386'.  With the 486, they've learned their lesson--the
following are all Intel registered trademarks: 80486, i486, 486.

An interesting analogy exists:  Pharmaceutical's frequently are developed by
one company, which sells it at a high price to recoup (supposedly) their
initial investment in the R&D necessary to bring the product to market.  Some
time after the original (brand-name) medicine has been on the market, other
companies manufacture and sell at a (much) lower price an equivalent (not
identical) medicine.  The differences are frequently different binding agents,
or what-have-you.  This causes the original company to lower their price,
although not to the level of the generics.  Take Motrin, for instance.  Motrin
is the brand name, and was developed by whoever developed it.  After some time,
several generic companies started producing their-named ibuprofen (note, the I
is not capitalized) tablets for less.  Motrin's price came down, and some
people still take Motrin--although lots of people save money on the generics. 
I hope things work out that allows 'generic' computer components...I sure can't
afford a 386 machine as it is now.

But anyway, hooray for AMD! 

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