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I've heard that Pentium was named Pentium really late into it's dev cycle once the trademark office told Intel that trademarking model numbers wasn't going to be kosher.



I thought Intel had a contest for naming the 486 successor.


And i thought pentium was basically 'penta'=5 ... 486 + 1 arch bump.




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