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Geek Culture / Intel Inside VIIV

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PiratSS
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Posted: 28th Jan 2005 13:55
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Reuters is reporting that 'Intel Inside VIIV' and 'Intel VIIV' were filed as U.S. trademarks. The question is, what does VIIV mean? Could this be the Roman numerals for 6-4 indicating a 64-bit chip, or could this be the Roman numeral five twice, separated by two lines, indicating the dual cores of the Pentium 5 chip?"

http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=technologyNews&storyID=2005-01-26T213849Z_01_N26481849_RTRIDST_0_TECH-TECH-INTEL-BRAND-DC.XML
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blanky
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Posted: 28th Jan 2005 22:35
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I think it would be the first, because 'Pentium Sixty-four' sounds better than 'Pentium Five-Five'..

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Teh Go0rfmeister
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surely 64 sounds better than "vee eye eye vee" but whatever.

anyway it wouldnt be five-five, it'd be CXI, which sounds way cool

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Ian T
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Posted: 29th Jan 2005 02:08 Edited at: 29th Jan 2005 02:08
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But what's wrong with LXIV? Only their PR department knows.

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Neofish
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I'd laugh so much if they'd made an even more cut down celeron or something that

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