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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?
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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?
My guess is that (|s)he just didn't want to get sued h(im|er)self!!! :-)
Cheers,
Stan.
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