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to: GEORG BORCHORST
from: LAWRENCE KELLIE
date: 1997-02-27 05:36:00
subject: For what it is worth...

 > 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. :)
This just shows further that Stewart is not totally cognizant of what he is 
writing.  ::sigh::
        Lawrence,
        Moderator, MS_WORD
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