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There were 586 CPUs that were not Pentiums? Article implies the original Pentium would be the new baseline, but then what 586 CPUs would lose support?
I believe i686 were the first Pentium chips.
They were named pent-ium because they were 586. Of course, the name lasted a lot longer than the technical reasons.
The Pentium Pro was i686.
That's a cool bit of computer science trivia.