It's been 30 years since Intel's infamous Pentium FDIV bug reared its ugly head

Re:It's been 30 years since Intel's infamous Pentium FDIV bu... by pansa2 on Friday November 01, 2024 @06:00AM (#42015456)

It’s a shame they named their next CPU “Pentium Pro” instead of “Hexium” (or “Sexium”!)

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Re:It's been 30 years since Intel's infamous Pentium FDIV bu... by throw0101d on Friday November 01, 2024 @07:32AM (#42015909)

> It’s a shame they named their next CPU “Pentium Pro” instead of “Hexium” (or “Sexium”!)

Penta- comes from the Greek, so hexa- would be more appropriate:

The Latin is quint- and sext-.

And if you have a movie trilogy, and one more move comes out, it becomes a tetralogy, and not a quadrilogy, also because of Greek etymology:

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