Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!newstop!sun!amdcad!brahms!phil From: phil@brahms.amd.com (Phil Ngai) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: Am386 release? Message-ID: <1991Mar13.002330.16671@amd.com> Date: 13 Mar 91 00:23:30 GMT References: <27d84e3c.3f6a@petunia.CalPoly.EDU> <27dc4882.1b54@petunia.CalPoly.EDU> Sender: usenet@amd.com (NNTP Posting) Organization: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc; Sunnyvale, CA Lines: 22 In article <27dc4882.1b54@petunia.CalPoly.EDU> rteasdal@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (Falconer) writes: | We spoke with a gnome at AMD Investor Relations today. The |Am386 will _probably_ be formally released this month. Reading between |the lines, we concluded that there may still be a legal hurdle to clear |before this can be done in an aboveboard manner. This was probably the trademark issue over the digits 3 8 6, which has been decided in favor of AMD. The Am386 still hasn't been formally announced yet (coming very soon!), but some gunmen stole a substantial number of them (in a speed grade not offered by Intel) while they were on their way to the airport. (see current EET) I guess this is the only way to get a hot Am386, since they use so little power. I do not speak for the company and these are only my personal opinions. -- The government is not your mother. The government doesn't love you.