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From: dlou@dino.ucsd.edu (Dennis Lou)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Intel Processors
Keywords: i486
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Date: 1 Aug 90 00:38:13 GMT
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In article <56214@microsoft.UUCP> t-dona@microsoft.UUCP (Don AINGWORTH) writes:
>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.


I personally don't mind the confusion.  Which is harder to say
quickly?  "Eight Oh Four Eighty Six"  or "Eye Four Eighty Six"?

How many people will confuse 8486 with 80486?  8486 with i486?


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Dennis Lou                Disclaimer: I don't use lame disks.
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