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From: imacbeath@crocus.waterloo.edu (Ian MacBeath, Conrad Grebel College)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: 80x86 numbering (was: 80486)
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Date: 6 Dec 88 07:34:01 GMT
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In article <45900175@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu> mcdonald@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
>Rahul Dhesi writes:
>>Apocalypse approaches rapidly.  From 8086 we derived 80286, and then
>>things became more orderly as we went to 80386, 80486, and now 80586.
>>When we reach 80986, what will happen?  
>
>Use hex of course: 80a86, 80b86 ... 80f86. Then go to base 36 - 
>80g86,...  80z86. Rumor has it that that is exactly what Boeing is going to do:
>7a7, 7b7 ...

Too late.  There's already an 80C86.  The CMOS version which gets
primarily used in laptops.