From kde-devel  Thu Jul 29 15:10:15 1999
From: Stephan Kulow <coolo () caldera ! de>
Date: Thu, 29 Jul 1999 15:10:15 +0000
To: kde-devel
Subject: Re: KDE 1.2-Preview: eyecandy.png
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Kurt Granroth wrote:
> 
> 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 :-)
But it backs what I meant: Pentium is a thing Intel invented (somehow).
One can't hardly say to invented Trash (at least I wouldn't :)

Greetings, Stephan

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