On Thu, 29 Jul 1999, Kurt Granroth wrote:
> 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).  

<pedantic>
Actually, it's greek, not latin. "Quintium" would sound like latin
for 5.
</pedantic>

Bernd.