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Re: RFC: pentium optimized debian



john@dhh.gt.org writes:

> Nonsense.  You can refer specifically to the Intel Pentium cpu without any
> legal concern at all (Intel is also a trademark, BTW).  The *only* thing
> Intel's trademark on Pentium permits them to do is to forbid you to label
> cpu's that you are *selling* 'Pentium'.

A 586 architecture will probably benefit processors made by AMD,
Cyrix/IBM, and others.  So can we refer to it as Pentium?

Plus gcc uses 586.


Guy


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