Didn't Intel take on the name Pentium instead of 80586, because they had been unable to prevent companies like Cyrix from marketing chips with 386 and 486 names?
The whole point of "Pentium" was that it could be trademarked, whereas a number, 586, could not.
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Didn't Intel take on the name Pentium instead of 80586, because they had been unable to prevent companies like Cyrix from marketing chips with 386 and 486 names?
The whole point of "Pentium" was that it could be trademarked, whereas a number, 586, could not.