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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: KDE 1.2-Preview: eyecandy.png
From:       Bernd Gehrmann <bernd () physik ! hu-berlin ! de>
Date:       1999-07-29 15:00:32
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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.

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