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Originally Posted by Flying Pencil
Not unlike Intel recycling its "Pentium" name, even though by the time Pentium 4 came out it was completely different then the original Pentium (and made it sound like Intel was reusing an old CPU and not make a new one).
(I feel better now, thank you)
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Yes well, You cannot trademark or copyright just a number by itself. Hence Intel need to move away from the 286/386/486 designations. They chose "Celeron", "Pentium" and later of course "Xeon".
These days the marketing hype has been about terms like "Core Duo" "Core i5" and so forth.