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From: koch@motcid.UUCP (Clifton Koch)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Intel asking AMD not to use 80C287 designation
Message-ID: <4506@navy22.UUCP>
Date: 27 Aug 90 20:46:50 GMT
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From article <14854@shlump.nac.dec.com>, by reisert@ricks.enet.dec.com (Jim Reisert):
> 
> INTEL Amending Copyright Infringement Suit Against AMD
> ELECTRONIC NEWS, July 2, 1990, page 8
> 
> INTEL's amended complaint against ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES asks that AMD stop
> calling its new math coprocessor the 80C287 and using the Intel brand on the
> device's packaging. It also asks that AMD issue a declaration that its '287
> is not fully compatible and pin-equivalent to two CMOS versions of the part
> made by Intel.
>
  I thought AMD is not able to claim Intel compatibility, but does not have
to claim that they are not compatible.