How do I say '80386' in English?

[chris_i386]

Hi everybody,

I'm preparing a paper on Linux for my English
class, and I'd like to know how you call the
Intel 80 386 processor in English.

In German you'd say "eighty / three / eightysix",
but this has to be an English paper ;-)
Because neither google nor my eDictionary
offered any help, I hope some of you are able to
enlighten my ignorance... :-)

Thanks in advance, chris.

[do_guh_new]

Guten Tag Chris,

Englisch es ist 80/386
bis spater.

[dkeav]

we usually drop the 80 prefix, and just call it an three eighty-six

[jrbishop79]

we simply call it the three-eighty-six... you could say put the eighty in front and people would still understand you, but we just say three-eighty-six around here....

[chris_i386]

Thanks!
We usually drop the '80' too, so it's pretty much the same.

Vielen Dank.

[dkeav]

well i guess, in most terms anymore its referred to as the i386 to refer to intel

[sharth]

just make sure that they don't take points off for not having three hundred eighty six. :)

good luck with the paper and the translating and all that fun stuffs.

[Strogian]

Umm.. I don't know if you're asking how to *say* it or how to *write* it, but in writing, it's always called the 80386 or 386. You don't write "three eighty-six," but that's how you'd say it. ;)

[chris_i386]

I'm actually doing an oral presentation!
It's 11 PM and I haven't even started writing the OpenOffice/Powerpoint slides.....

Looks like I won't get too much sleep tonight...
But I'm still optimistic.

[dkeav]

how long? 10-20min, or does it have to be longggggg

[dkeav]

crap whats your subject too, cause i have some presentations i might be able to help ya out

[chris_i386]

Should be about 15 minutes.


My working title is:

The GNU/Linux Operating System: a short introduction.

But I could still change that...

I think I'll split it up into four main parts.

Part One: Unix History / Unix philosophy: everything is a file / pipes.

Part Two: Richard Stallman, father of free software.

Part Three: Linus Torvalds: short bio + circumstances that lead to Linux.

Part Four (GNU) / Linux. I'm not sure what to write here exactly, but I think I'll end up describing some of its features, compare it with other OS'ses and point out some of its benefits and maybe weaknesses.

I don't get a grade for this class(how do I say this in proper English??), just a sheet of paper saying whether I passed or not.

I'm pretty sure I'll pass because I saw people pass who were definitly worse than me.

But on the other hand I want this presentation to be as good as possible, because it "spreads the word of Linux".

[chris_i386]

If you could point me to any material regarding Part Four I'd be very thankful, as it was originally meant to be a technical presentation...

[dkeav]

we call them pass/fail classes, i dont have anything that basic, sorry

i have some advanced stuff on file systems, kernels, stuff like that, that i had to give here at college, but if its only 15 minutes you should be able to churn that out in no time, when i doubt get sh**faced, thats when i always did my best work for english classes and what not hehehehe

[Chadduss]

Viel Glueck chris_i386!

Let us know how it goes!

[Parcival]

Wenn einer so gut Englisch kann wie Du, ist so ein kleiner mündlicher Vortrag doch ein Klacks. :) Viel Glück! Und lass wissen, ob jetzt die ganze Klasse SuSE installiert. :D

[mrBen]

I've always said 'three-eight-six', and to me 80386 would be 'eight-oh-three-eight-six'.

Maybe I'm just a freak.

Good luck with the presentation.

[root.veg]

nope, MrBen, you are not a freak, everyone I know in the UK says "three-eight-six" NOT "three-eighty-six".

But then perhaps everyone I know in the UK is a freak? :)

[dkeav]

nahh its just us rednecks, we talk funny, i speak like five languages american english, some german, northern redneck, southern redneck, and im starting to figure out urbanite but its tough, nothing means what its supposed to hehehe

[LinuxRules]

I would agree with 386, or possibly i386, as the '80' is usually dropped these days.

Good luck!

[Stween]

Originally posted by root.veg
nope, MrBen, you are not a freak, everyone I know in the UK says "three-eight-six" NOT "three-eighty-six".

But then perhaps everyone I know in the UK is a freak? :)

Yeah, that's just the way that we say it. Before reading this, I'd never even considered that anyone might say it "three eighty-six", it strikes me as a bit odd :p

[mdwatts]

eight-oh-three-eighty-six or three-eighty-six

OR as I called it back when it was first released.

Damn fast. :)

[chris_i386]

Wow! Thanks for all your help!

It didn't went too bad, the only big thing my teacher critizised was that I had too much text on my transparencies...

But it still was a personal success for me:
Normally I tend to read everything off of my memo pad if I'm nervous, and hell was I nervous today.
Somehow I still got around that and didn't even look at my notes. *proud*

three--eighty-six was definitly what I was looking for, as my English teacher is from Toronto.

BUT as most of my audience looked really puzzled when I explained what an operating system is all about, I decided to leave out some more detailed stuff.
So I just talked about a "new Intel computer"...

Thanks anyway!!!