Linux fat/bloated

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Fri, Apr 07, 2006 at 02:21:06PM -0400, Colin McGregor wrote:
> For Intel there was a marketting problem with the
> 80486 chip, after a court battle Intel found out they
> could NOT trademark just a number, so they could not
> say stop AMD from calling their Intel 80486 act-alike 
> chip an 80486. The the replacement for the Intel 80486
> chip was called a Pentium, with Intel trademarking the
> name so that no other firm could use that name in
> connection with a CPU chip. Since then each generation
> of Intel chips has had the Pentium name plus a name or
> a number. So this lot went as follows:
> 
> - Pentium
> - Pentium Pro
> - Pentium II
> - Pentium III
> - Pentium IV
> 
> Hope this helps.

Ehm, I wonder if intel thinks they can trademark 'core', 'solo' or
'duo'?  I guess they are only trademarking them as combinations. :)

Len Sorensen
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