I always felt Intel screwed up the whole chip naming thing when they changed from the x86 system after the 486. Some marketing geniums came up with the Pentium name -- changing the CPU name from what it should have been called, the 586.

Intel knew they couldn't keep up the Latin-number thing after Pentium (for 5) because what would the name for the 6th chip be? The Six-ium ??

By my count, they would only be up to a 786 by now if they had just let nature take its course.