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To: Jim McMannis who wrote (41545)12/5/1997 2:04:00 PM
From: miraje  Respond to of 186894
 
RE: Misrepresenting "Pentium":

On page 3 of the Damark catalog I received yesterday, there is an ad for a CTX system with a K6-200 MMx processor. In the text of the ad is quote "complete system on your desk with a Pentium powered multimedia system". Pentium is used as a generic name with no trademark credited to Intel Corporation. I don't know how much of this is going on, but, an ad like this could sure deceive a first time buyer into thinking he's getting an Intel product.

Regards, JB



To: Jim McMannis who wrote (41545)12/6/1997 3:25:00 PM
From: ratan lal  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 186894
 
Jim

When I worked for Xerox, they were potentially going to lose their name. So they ordered all employees to stop using the phrase - I am going to xerox this -. But they have no control over outsiders although it is a good idea to convince your regular customers to not use the same phrase. IN this case intel could ask compaq, dell microsoft etc to prevent their employees from using pentium intead of cpu.

ratan


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