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Re: Why not INTEL586?

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From: Michael R Castle
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1992 23:04
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In article <1992Oct28.103344.18434@nuscc.nus.sg> 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.
>
>jin meng


Because then we would have Cyrix586 and Am586 and we would be back where we
started.

Btw, is Motorola having this problem?  ;->
mrc
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