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Comment Re:Naming schemes (Score 1) 388

by CaptainHurricane on Tuesday March 22, 2005 @11:57AM (#12012267) Attached to: Intel's 64-Bit Pentium 4s Hit The Streets

Aye, the "Pent" in Pentium was intended to denote 5 (Penta), as in 586, but for some reason they've kept with that handle since I was in Middle School (for perspective on that, I'm out of Uni now).

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