Pent

See also: pent, pent-, and -pent-

English

Etymology

Clipping of Pentium.

Noun

Pent (plural Pents)

1. (computing) A Pentium microprocessor or computer.
   • 1996 February 19, Jeremy Kott, “Re: strange pauses....”, in alt.sys.pc-clone.gateway2000‎^[1] (Usenet):

     I have encountered this problem on several computers from 486's to Pents. The only thing I have found to fix it is make sure the CD-Rom cache is set fairly high in the cdrom setup of win 95, and make sure to eliminate ALL unnecessary 16-bit drivers in your autoexec.bat and config.sys.

Anagrams

• ENTP, PETN