Pent
See also: pent, pent-, and -pent-
English
Etymology
Clipping of Pentium.
Noun
Pent (plural Pents)
- (computing) A Pentium microprocessor or computer.
- 1996 February 19, Jeremy Kott, “Re: strange pauses....”, in alt.sys.pc-clone.gateway2000, 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.