Hi STEWART ROTHMAN, Top o' the morning to ya!
24-Feb-97 05:30, STEWART ROTHMAN wrote to Bill Newman
          Subject: For what it is worth...
 SR> Memphis as there is a problem copyrighting a number. That's why Intel 
did 
 SR> not 
 SR> produce a 686 chip. They produced a Pentium instead. That way nobody 
else 
 SR> can 
 SR> produce a copy NAMED THE SAME. (Penta is six).
Running the risk of being offtopic:
Intel called it Pentium instead of 586. Take a look at Pentagon -
it is certainly not hexagonal - with six edges.
Penta is five, hexa is six. :)
 All the best, Georg Borchorst
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