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From: t-dona@microsoft.UUCP (Don AINGWORTH)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Intel Processors
Summary: why i486
Keywords: i486
Message-ID: <56214@microsoft.UUCP>
Date: 31 Jul 90 22:53:46 GMT
References: <1990Jul30.143353.25913@usenet@kadsma>
Reply-To: t-dona@microsoft.UUCP (Don AINGWORTH)
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Organization: Microsoft Corp., Redmond WA
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In article <1990Jul30.143353.25913@usenet@kadsma> pajerek@kadsma.UUCP (Donald Pajerek) writes:
>Why is the 80486 chip always referred to as the i486?
>Is this some sort of protocol that Intel wants the world to observe?

I had the same question awhile ago, and when I asked someone he said it had
to do with the million + chips: that when an intel had in i before its
number, that meant that it had a million transistors, or whatever it is
that they hade over a million of.