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Poll: How do you pronounce 68K CPUs?
« on: January 20, 2012, 01:38:23 AM »
I call them oh-three-oh (or sixty-eight oh-three-oh, if I'm feeling formal), but I'm curious to hear what others say :)

Obviously there will be some linguistic differences due to the many countries represented here. Please share pronunciations in your local language, too!
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Re: Poll: How do you pronounce 68K CPUs?
« Reply #1 on: January 20, 2012, 01:42:38 AM »
Sixty-eight-K, oh-twenty, oh-thirty, oh-forty, oh-sixty.
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Re: Poll: How do you pronounce 68K CPUs?
« Reply #2 on: January 20, 2012, 01:42:46 AM »
68K for referring to the family, just the number pronounced normally, or 20, 30, 40 and 60 for the respective CPUs (68000 always as 68000).
 

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Re: Poll: How do you pronounce 68K CPUs?
« Reply #3 on: January 20, 2012, 02:44:11 AM »
I don't usually say it out load, since nobody I know would understand what the hell I'm talking about, but sixty-eight oh-two-oh sounds right to me.
 

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Re: Poll: How do you pronounce 68K CPUs?
« Reply #4 on: January 20, 2012, 03:07:45 AM »
Oh-x-Oh, but done in an outrageous French accent while farting the Star-Spangled Banner and playing the spoons.
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Re: Poll: How do you pronounce 68K CPUs?
« Reply #5 on: January 20, 2012, 04:46:43 AM »
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Oh-x-Oh, but done in an outrageous French accent while farting the Star-Spangled Banner and playing the spoons.

HAHA! Combine this with a Welsh and Brittany Spears Louisiana accent and this would be quite a sight! :lol:

For me i just say Oh-x-Oh. But i would also accept "the Motorola's".

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Re: Poll: How do you pronounce 68K CPUs?
« Reply #6 on: January 20, 2012, 05:16:10 AM »
Null-sechzig etc. (with rolling Rrrrrrrr - but wait...)
 

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Re: Poll: How do you pronounce 68K CPUs?
« Reply #7 on: January 20, 2012, 05:28:15 AM »
So it looks like the Germans and the Americans do the "20, 30" etc, and the Brits do the "oh X oh".

Silly british. :D
 

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Re: Poll: How do you pronounce 68K CPUs?
« Reply #8 on: January 20, 2012, 06:01:29 AM »
"oh thirty" etc.
 

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Re: Poll: How do you pronounce 68K CPUs?
« Reply #9 on: January 20, 2012, 06:39:29 AM »
In english I usually say oh-sixty, oh-thirty and so on, but when I speak finnish or swedish I use the equivalent of oh-six-oh
 

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Re: Poll: How do you pronounce 68K CPUs?
« Reply #10 on: January 20, 2012, 06:57:57 AM »
Was always "sixty eight k" for the 68000, and "oh two/three,four/six oh" up here.
 

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Re: Poll: How do you pronounce 68K CPUs?
« Reply #11 on: January 20, 2012, 07:41:50 AM »
oh-fourty. In German "achtundsechzig-null-vierzig" as well (sixtyeight-oh-fourty).
 

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Re: Poll: How do you pronounce 68K CPUs?
« Reply #12 on: January 20, 2012, 07:55:18 AM »
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So it looks like the Germans and the Americans do the "20, 30" etc, and the Brits do the "oh X oh".

Silly british. :D
Yeah, that does seem true! I also say Oh two oh, oh three oh etc :)

I call the 68000, six eight thousand.

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Re: Poll: How do you pronounce 68K CPUs?
« Reply #13 on: January 20, 2012, 08:22:26 AM »
Nobody else called it the "sixty eight thousand and twenty" ? :lol:

Only kidding. I've always called them "sixty eight oh eight/ten/twelve/twenty/thirty/forty/sixty", except for the 68000 which is just the "sixty eight thousand". Generally just shortened to "oh twenty" when in the company of others that are familiar.

Oddly enough, I've always called the old x86 parts "oh/one/two/three/four eight six". Never "eighty oh eighty six".
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Re: Poll: How do you pronounce 68K CPUs?
« Reply #14 on: January 20, 2012, 09:47:39 AM »
68-blank, 68-0-10/20/30/40/60, 68-3-28, 68-8-82 etc.
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