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- From: sgr@alden.UUCP (Stan Ryckman)
- Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss,comp.org.eff.talk,comp.unix.bsd,comp.os.mach,misc.int-property,alt.suit.att-bsdi
- Subject: Re: Are you sure UNIX is a trade mark?
- Message-ID: <565@alden.UUCP>
- Date: 11 Sep 92 15:42:08 GMT
- References: <KANDALL.92Sep9170758@globalize.nsg.sgi.com> <farrow.716074432@fido.Colorado.EDU> <18ns8rINNd81@agate.berkeley.edu>
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- In article <18ns8rINNd81@agate.berkeley.edu> ag@cogsci.Berkeley.EDU (Keith Gabryelski) writes:
- [...]
- >In article <farrow.@fido.Colorado.EDU> farrow@fido.Colorado.EDU writes:
- [...]
- >>The hell it hasn't! AT&T/USL are several years too late. I was using
- >>UN*X for over a year before I even heard of AT&T System V. At CU
- >>Boulder, we don't even have any SysV machines that I know of, yet we
- >>refer to all of our UN*X boxes as "UNIX". [...]
- >>
- >>Any other opinions?
- >
- >I noticed that in the paragraph above you used `UN*X' instead of
- >`UNIX' to refer to OSs that were not UNIX but did have some
- >capabilities of UNIX.
- >
- >Is this because you are competely aware of the difference?
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- My guess is that (|s)he just didn't want to get sued h(im|er)self!!! :-)
-
- Cheers,
- Stan.
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