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- Path: sparky!uunet!dtix!mimsy!ra!russo
- From: russo@rudedog.nrl.navy.mil (Kevin Russo)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
- Subject: Telnet a trademark of NCSA???
- Keywords: telnet, ncsa
- Message-ID: <3495@ra.nrl.navy.mil>
- Date: 2 Sep 92 01:12:15 GMT
- Sender: usenet@ra.nrl.navy.mil
- Organization: Naval Research Lab, Washington, DC
- Lines: 18
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- I was just reading in the IRIX Network Computing System
- Administration Guide (date 11/91 p. ii & 2-6) that Telnet is a
- trademark (not registered, though) of the National Center for
- Supercomputing at U Ill Urbana.
-
- Didn't the name "telnet" originate in the old days of ARPAnet,
- well before NCSA and their pc/mac implementation. If the name
- belongs to anyone, it should be "the government."
-
- Did an SGI tech writer become confused or is NCSA trying to
- reach too far back into the past?
-
- Can any networking old-timers clear this up?
-
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- Kevin Russo russo@orion.nrl.navy.mil
- SFA / US Naval Research Lab Washington, DC
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