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Article #914Re: Plural of Pentium (was Re: Why not INTEL586?)
From: David McNab
Date: Mon, 09 Nov 1992 21:36
Date: Mon, 09 Nov 1992 21:36
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steibel@venus.cs.umbc.edu (David M. Steibel) writes: > Or is that Pentia? Pentiae? Assistance from people who took some Latin > would be much appreciated. :-) dmccart@gomez.intel.com (D. J. McCarthy) writes: > One Pentium. Two Pentiums. rskinner@mipos2.intel.com (Rod Skinner) writes: >There is only one way to describe the Pentium (tm) processor. If you >want the plural form...it is Pentium processors. ALL trademarks are >adjectives and therefore only have ONE form. The noun that the >trademark describes can be either singular or plural as you would >normally do. > >Pentium (tm) CPUs >Pentium (tm) microprocessors Hmm. Are you sure the plural isn't going to be "paragon"? :-) ----------------------------- David McNab Parallel Systems Support NAS Program, CSC at NASA/Ames mcnab@nas.nasa.gov
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.intel Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!think.com!ames!eos!data.nas.nasa.gov!dinsdale.nas.nasa.gov!mcnab From: mcnab@dinsdale.nas.nasa.gov (David McNab) Subject: Re: Plural of Pentium (was Re: Why not INTEL586?) References: <1992Nov2.155632.28732@microware.com> <BxBnty.4Gn@inews.Intel.COM> <BxC3xv.6Kr@inews.Intel.COM> Sender: news@nas.nasa.gov (News Administrator) Organization: NAS Program, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA Date: Mon, 9 Nov 92 21:36:10 GMT Message-ID: <1992Nov9.213610.17644@nas.nasa.gov> Lines: 24