Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!purdue!bu-cs!art
From: art@bu-cs.BU.EDU (Al Thompson)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Subject: Re: Explorer
Message-ID: <44090@bu-cs.BU.EDU>
Date: 7 Dec 89 16:14:48 GMT
References: <32052@news.Think.COM>
Reply-To: art@cs.bu.edu (Al Thompson)
Followup-To: comp.lang.lisp
Organization: Boston University
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In article <32052@news.Think.COM> barmar@Think.COM (Barry Margolin) writes:
>I just saw a TV commercial for a home computer called "Explorer".  At first
>I thought, "What?  TI is marketing their Lisp Machine to home users?"  From
>the rest of the commercial I found out that it is a completely different
>machine by a different manufacturer.
>
>So, did TI forget to trademark the name "Explorer"?  Or are these new guys
>about to get their asses sued?

No kidding, there is a company marketing a vacuum cleaner called "VAX".
What is DEC going to do?  (sorry about the group, just following up).