Poll: How do you pronounce 68K CPUs?

[kolla]

68-blank, 68-0-10/20/30/40/60, 68-3-28, 68-8-82 etc.
When speaking English I say "oh" for -0-, in Norwegian and German I say "null", and in a rush I drop the 68. Remember once I talked to a mac guy who spoke the "30 processor" in his mac, I really didn't understand what the heck he was talking about

[Matt_H]

So it looks like the Germans and the Americans do the "20, 30" etc, and the Brits do the "oh X oh".

Silly british.

I'm not British

[kolla]

Never "eighty oh eighty six".

Maybe because there never was a 80086? :hammer:

I say 80-86, 80-88, 80-1/2/3/4/5/6-86, 80-3-87 etc, most oftenly dropping 80-.

[Boot_WB]

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!

I go with:

Generic:
Sixty-Eight-Kay

Shorthand:
Oh-three-oh (etc)

Formal:
Six-Eight-Oh-Three-Oh

but then I'm weird...

[Boot_WB]

So it looks like the Germans and the Americans do the "20, 30" etc, and the Brits do the "oh X oh".

Silly british.

Silly? Pfah. The rest of the world drives on the wrong side of the road and you call us silly? ;-)

[Boot_WB]

I call the 68000, six eight thousand.

Do you precede it with "Pennsylvania [pause]..."?

[carls]

Oh-Xty, but mostly in Swedish - noll-tio, noll-tjugo, noll-trettio, noll-fyrtio, noll-sextio

[TheBilgeRat]

I'm not British

You're from Mass.  May as well be :lol:

[TheBilgeRat]

Silly? Pfah. The rest of the world drives on the wrong side of the road and you call us silly? ;-)

Completely off topic, but I sure wish I could find more old Land Rovers around these parts that aren't stripped of engines and used as some stationary prop in the African section of zoos.


Carry on

[Karlos]

Maybe because there never was a 80086? :hammer:

lol, true

[ognix]

When happens to think/speak in english (since I'm italian) I'm used to say -zero-twenty/thirty/forty/sixty (because in italian the 'oh' is pronounced 'zero', since it's a number.  

For the father of the family, a plain sixty-eight-thousand; but sometimes happens when I read to say 'sixty-eight-k' in my mind...  .

BY!

[Dazxy2001]

68 k, oh-x-oh, 6-8 oh-x-oh etc

[Speelgoedmannetje]

The "acht-en-zestig duizend" (eight-and-sixty thousand) - Dutch isn't that 'abbreviative' like English

[gaula92]

In Spanish, the language Amiga name comes from, it's like this:

68K: Sesenta y ocho mil
68020: Cero veinte
68030: Cero treinta
...
68060: Cero sesenta

[TheDaddy]

In Italian:

"sessantotto zero trenta" (68030) or simply "zero trenta"

or "sessantottomila trenta"

Amiga 1200 = Amiga mille e duecento
Amiga 500 = Amiga cinquecento
Amiga 600 = Amiga seicento

But in English I say: oh-thirty and sometimes sixty eight zero thirty

[kickstart]

In Spanish, the language Amiga name comes from, it's like this:

68K: Sesenta y ocho mil
68020: Cero veinte
68030: Cero treinta
...
68060: Cero sesenta

Amiga is a portuguese word too.