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- From: mab@duvel.princeton.edu (Matt Blaze)
- Subject: Re: "UNIX" is not the registered trademark of AT&T in Japan.
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- Organization: Princeton University, Dept. of Computer Science
- References: <2759@tansei1.tansei.cc.u-tokyo.ac.jp> <1846@adagio.UUCP>
- Date: 14 Aug 92 05:14:18 GMT
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- grog@adagio.UUCP (Greg Lehey) writes:
-
- >In article <2759@tansei1.tansei.cc.u-tokyo.ac.jp> mhiroshi@tansei.cc.u-tokyo.ac.jp (H. Murakami) writes:
- >>A little fact that you might be interested in.
- >>
- >>In Japan, the word "UNIX" is not the registered trademark of USL nor AT&T,
-
- >I don't know the details in Germany, but next time you want to rent a
- >car in Germany, you might find it amusing to rent it from a company
- >called UNIX-Rent-Autovermietung-Beteiligungsgesellschaft mbH in
- >Frankfurt am Main (telephone +49-69-619054). No, I don't have any
- >connection with the company - I just found the name amusing.
- >--
- >Greg Lehey | Tel: +49-6637-1488
- >LEMIS | Fax: +49-6637-1489
- >Schellnhausen 2, W-6324 Feldatal, Germany
- >*** NOTE ***: Headers are mangled - reply to grog%lemis@Germany.EU.net
-
- UNIX is also the brand name of a fire extinguisher in Egypt. (If you
- go to the museum in Cairo you'll see lots of them. No, i don't think
- they're on display).
-
- -matt
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