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From: cgordon@vpnet.chi.il.us (Gordon Hlavenka)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Intel asking AMD not to use 80C287 designation
Message-ID: <26da95b3-169.2comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware-1@vpnet.chi.il.us>
Date: 28 Aug 90 17:55:05 GMT
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>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 it was interesting that Intel was claiming that it infringed
_Intel's_ copyright for _AMD_ to put "Copyright Intel" on the chips...

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Gordon S. Hlavenka            cgordon@vpnet.chi.il.us