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- Date: Wed, 16 Dec 92 17:16:16 EST
- From: clements@BBN.COM
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
- Subject: Re: "The Net <tm>"?
- Message-ID: <telecom12.908.7@eecs.nwu.edu>
- Organization: TELECOM Digest
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- X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 12, Issue 908, Message 7 of 18
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- In article <telecom12.905.4@eecs.nwu.edu> Brad Hicks writes:
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- > I haven't been this steamed since the last time a megacorp highjacked
- > a common term, when IBM (in my mind, illegally) trademarked the
- > acronym for "personal computer."
-
- This isn't really very telecom-related, but:
-
- I'm not one to defend IBM, particularly, but they did NOT trademark
- the term "PC".
-
- In, for example, "IBM PC/AT", the "IBM" part is trademarked and the
- "AT" part is trademarked, but the "PC" part is not.
-
- As you say, "PC" was well established at the time, meaning what we
- would now call a workstation. Of course, today people THINK that "PC"
- means an IBM/Intel/Microsoft 80x86 machine. But that's a marketing
- success, not a trademark.
-
-
- Bob Clements, K1BC, clements@bbn.com
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