> the idea that you can't trademark numbers will come as a
> HUGE surprise to 1-800-CALL-ATT and all such similar services.
548866215
+ 17453389073
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18002255288*
* Registered Trademark of AT&T
Don't be silly, I can use the number 18002255288 wherever I want. It makes
perfect sense that you can't trademark them. You think if I was conducting a
test that if my result was 18002255288, that I would have to ask AT&T for
permission to publish it and if they refused I would have to change the
result. If they made it a graphic with a cool font and some design, then
maybe they could claim it is a logo and trademark it.
>> However, the fact that INTEL doesn't call it an X86 processor does not
>> mean that it isn't.
>That's utter nonsense. Just because people in the south call ALL brown soft
>drinks "Cokes" doesn't make them Cokes.
But INTEL does call them x86 as I stated before, its convenient that you
forgot that.
>> As you can see from the history above and accompanying sources
> Those sources you site mostly don't say that, and those that do are simply
> wrong. Intel is the ONLY authority on the naming and family groupings of
> their chip products, and they do not agree with geek mythology, no matter
> how popular or widespread it may be. End of discussion.
Same point above.
"When IntelR introduced the PentiumR processor in 1993, it enunciated a new
architecture for the x86 line of processors. The Pentium processor was the
first superscalar x86 chip, meaning it could execute more than one
instruction on each clock cycle. In addition, the Pentium processor was the
first line of x86 chips to integrate floating-point capabilities at all
price points." -
http://www.intel.com/cd/ids/developer/asmo-na/eng/44004.htm?prn=Y
Its talking about their Pentium Processor and they mention x86 3 times
"On the x86 family, it comes with native support for Pentium II through
Pentium 4 processors" -
http://www.intel.com/cd/ids/developer/asmo-na/eng/20242.htm?prn=Y
"The key differentiator from the default is that the Pentium-4/Celeron
(P4-based)/Pentium-4 M/Xeon processor family is selected on the x86 build" -
http://www.intel.com/cd/ids/developer/asmo-na/eng/182333.htm?prn=Y
"Intel's next enhancement to the venerable x86 instruction set was the first
set of SSE (Streaming SIMD Extensions), which made its debut in 1999 with
the Pentium III processor." -
www.intel.com/cd/ids/developer/asmo-na/eng/20455.htm
"Mercury Research calculates that the next billion X86 CPUs could ship far
faster than the first billion processors and could come as early as 2007.
" - http://www.intel.com/pressroom/archive/releases/20030609corp.htm
Despite all of this if you really, really want I will call them IA-32, but
in my heart they are x86s, not to mention the rest of the computer
community. But there is a problem with IA-32, it is Intel only, as x86 is
used by AMD and others and is a standard, I guess you could call all those
processors IA-32 compatible. Note also that compatible processors are also
called x86 so it is not completely up to Intel.
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