SarahWalker wrote:

Same here. I always assumed that 'four-eighty-six' was an Americanism, a bit like calling the NES 'en-ee-ess'.

An "Americanism" of an American product? 🤣

No, an Americanism of saying numbers.

I've always said four eight six

If you were going to the trouble of saying "four eighty six", why not say "four hundred and eighty six"? Four Eighty six is in between saying individual numbers and the whole number..

Seems like a strange way to pronounce IMO.

I only noticed people saying 3-8-6, 4-8-6 in school, After school and getting more into the trade, sometimes it would be called a 4-80-6 but never the full spec saying something like 4-80-6 DX2 66 takes much to long for us Aussies 😉

May have been part of that not wanting to sound American, like on TV when someone would play with their Lego's. 1 brick. 1000 bricks it was always just Lego.

Windows 3.11 was the product that caused the most confusion round the same era. Windows 3-11, 3-1-1, 3-2, 3-eye-eye

Come on, doesn't everyone know it's the Fourty-eight Six.

427 Hemi - Four Twenty-Seven Hemi
Galaxy 500 = Galaxy Five Hundred
Windows 3.11 = Windows Three Point One One
P400 = P Four Hundred
P466 = P Four Sixty-Six

Don't think there are fixed rules on how to pronounce numbers outside of mathematics, but tend to say the Tens, Hundred, Thousands for round base-tens, 3-Digit numbers as "one, twenty-one", 4-Digit numbers as "twenty-one, twenty-one".

First decade of the 21st century was tricky; twenty-oh-one? Naught-oh-one, Two Thousand and one?... missing the Nineteens...

What about x86? "x eighty six" or "x eight six".

I always said "four eighty six". Not sure why or how 😊

tincup wrote:

P400 = P Four Hundred
P466 = P Four Sixty-Six

Don't think there are fixed rules on how to pronounce numbers outside of mathematics, but tend to say the Tens, Hundred, Thousands for round base-tens, 3-Digit numbers as "one, twenty-one", 4-Digit numbers as "twenty-one, twenty-one".

Good examples which blows my use of numbers out the window 😀 , that's how I pronounced those cpus, I always called the Pentium2/Celeron 333 as "Three Thirty Three", I never took much notice on these things I must say.

Pentium III fourteen hundred or one thousand four hundred?

four eight six here.

You gotta love this forum...

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In Russia we say: chet`iresta v`osem'desjat shest`oj 😀

Which means: four hundred eighty sixth.

Mau1wurf1977 wrote:

Pentium III fourteen hundred or one thousand four hundred?

Nup go to decimals "P 3 1.4".

Of your American put a fraction on it, "P 3 & 4/10th".

Given the heat troubles for some of my friends then with DX4s (cpu cooling was a very alien thing), i've heard "fuckin' 86"

tincup wrote:

427 Hemi - Four Twenty-Seven Hemi Galaxy 500 = Galaxy Five Hundred Windows 3.11 = Windows Three Point One One P400 = P Four Hund […]
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427 Hemi - Four Twenty-Seven Hemi
Galaxy 500 = Galaxy Five Hundred
Windows 3.11 = Windows Three Point One One
P400 = P Four Hundred
P466 = P Four Sixty-Six

Don't think there are fixed rules on how to pronounce numbers outside of mathematics, but tend to say the Tens, Hundred, Thousands for round base-tens, 3-Digit numbers as "one, twenty-one", 4-Digit numbers as "twenty-one, twenty-one".

First decade of the 21st century was tricky; twenty-oh-one? Naught-oh-one, Two Thousand and one?... missing the Nineteens...

All of the above in Turkish will be said using hundreds. Similarly, 486 is dörtyüzseksenalti (four hundred eighty six). We have also some irregularities though. For example, 8008 is sekizbinsekiz (eight thousand eight) but 8088 is mostly seksen seksensekiz (eighty eighty eight).
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For 8088, 8086 etc I just say: "Eight Oh Eighty eight" and "Eight Oh Eighty Six"
If it's a Pentium 200MMX I just say "Pentium Two Hundred M M X" but if it's a Pentium 233mmx I say "Pentium Two Thirty Three M M X".
But if I'm talking about mhz I say it like a hundred. Example: "Pentium One running at One Hundred and Sixty Six Megahertz".

Not sure why this is. *shrug*

Eighty Eighty Eight for me. 😁

Jorpho wrote:

Four and four twenties and six.

Just kidding. Eighty six.

It takes a canadian to joke like this.

Never heard of four-eghty-six all my life. Allways four-eight-six from everyone. Portugal.

More interesting than I thought this discussion would be.

In the US I've never head anything other than 4-80-6.