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From: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: AMD vs. Intel Arbitration
Message-ID: <2776@crdos1.crd.ge.COM>
Date: 19 Oct 90 12:50:52 GMT
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Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.com (bill davidsen)
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In article <1416@msa3b.UUCP> torre@msa3b.UUCP (Patrick Torre) writes:

| Does anyone think that a i386 compatible chip
| will sell if it is called something like lxmn757 (or anything 
| else that does not have "386" in it) ?

  The big market for CPUs is OEM. These guys are interested in price
and performance, not names. I doubt that you would hurt sales even a
little bit with any other number other than possibly 666.

  As I recall some of the 80[23]87 clones don't have 87 in their parts
number, and the popular V20 and V30 chips don't obviously relate to
Intel part numbers, either.

-- 
bill davidsen	(davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM -or- uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen)
    VMS is a text-only adventure game. If you win you can use unix.