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Re: Why not INTEL586?

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From: Faisal Nameer Jawdat
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1992 21:10
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eletanjm@nuscc.nus.sg (Tan Jin Meng) writes:
> I can understand why INTEL would want a name for their next generation
> processor to be trademarkable. Then why not simply use the name
> INTEL586. Surely this has to be trademarkable.

they wanted something that sounded like an ingredient so they could
play more advertising games with 'intel inside'
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Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1992 16:10:25 -0500 
From: Faisal Nameer Jawdat <fj05+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Re: Why not INTEL586?
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