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From: pjh@mccc.uucp (Pete Holsberg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Intel Processors
Keywords: i486
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Date: 9 Aug 90 01:29:01 GMT
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In article <4007@rtifs1.UUCP> bcw@rti.rti.org (Bruce Wright) writes:
=As I said before, I suspect it is short for "iAPX", which is an
=acronym of some sort that Intel seems to use for processor chips.
=My guess is that it stands for something on the order of "Intel
=Application Processor Architecture" (or something like that).

Would you believe that the "i" is short for "Intel"?  No?  I thought as
much.  :-)

Pete
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