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From: tabu6@CCVAX.IASTATE.EDU (Adam Goldberg)
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Subject: Re: the Am386(tm) is cool!
Message-ID: <1991Mar26.002801.27433@news.iastate.edu>
Date: 26 Mar 91 00:28:01 GMT
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In article <1991Mar25.050646.8556@cmcl2.nyu.edu>, 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! 
>

What the heck do I know anyway.  According to Intel advertisements I've seen,
it sure does look like they've claimed a trademark for '486'.  Though I could
be wrong about 80486, though not i486.

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