Re: the Am386(tm) is cool!

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From: Phil Roberts
Date: Tue, 02 Apr 1991 02:31

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tester@cmcl2.nyu.edu (L Testerville) writes:

>tabu6@CCVAX.IASTATE.EDU (Adam Goldberg) writes:
>>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.
>                                                ^^^^^        ^^^
>Sorry, even Intel can't trademark NUMBERS.  You possibly mean iAPX486,
>the 80486' official designation.

>>But anyway, hooray for AMD! 

>Yes, let's all put our hands together for AMD.  Bringing prices to a
>more reasonable level.  Though still murderous at best, it doesn't come
>close to the genocide that Intel has reaped upon the x86 faithful...
>;-)

>  \\Lee

This is not intended as a flame.  I post it for informational purposes
only.

I have before me an Intel advertisement from the January 29 issue of 
PC Magazine.  To quote from the ad: "486 is a trademark of Intel
Corporation."  Also where the number 486 appears in the ad the small TM
trademark symbol follows the number.


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