Bernd Gehrmann wrote:
> 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>

Hey, it's ALL greek to me!

:-)

(sorry, lame joke probably only makes sense to native-english speakers)
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