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Re: Why not INTEL586?

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From: Samuel A. Fineberg
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1992 00:24
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In article <1992Oct28.230413.28960@umr.edu>, mcastle@mcs213d.cs.umr.edu (Michael R Castle) writes:
|> 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
Who would want to copy their processors?  Besides, 68k's aren't as overpriced.

Sam
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