Stephan Kulow wrote: > Hmm, what does Pentium mean in english? I doubt you can trademark > "processor" "Pentium" doesn't mean anything in any language. It is a word that was specially made-up for that product. I believe that Intel spent several million dollars in getting some firm to think up that word. It's designed to give you a "feeling". The "pent" part kind of sounds like Latin for 5 (pentagram, pentathalon, etc) to clue people that it was the "fifth" generation processor (i586). The "ium" part was designed to make it sound "elemental" (titanium, cadmium, etc). Hmm.. I think I got off-topic, there :-) -- Kurt Granroth | granroth@kde.org KDE Developer/Evangelist | http://www.pobox.com/~kurt_granroth KDE -- Putting a Friendly Face on Linux