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From: bill@bilver.UUCP (Bill Vermillion)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: Creating a newsgroup for the 6000-series ?
Message-ID: <930@bilver.UUCP>
Date: 26 Aug 90 02:36:41 GMT
References: <2085@krafla.rhi.hi.is-> <6284@darkstar.ucsc.edu> <5400@mace.cc.purdue.edu>
Reply-To: bill@bilver.UUCP (Bill Vermillion)
Organization: W. J. Vermillion - Winter Park, FL
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In article <5400@mace.cc.purdue.edu-> lzm@mace.cc.purdue.edu (Chris McCoy) writes:
->In <6284@darkstar.ucsc.edu> hugo@spica.ucsc.edu (Hugo Calendar) writes:
->
->>In article <2085@krafla.rhi.hi.is> frisk@rhi.hi.is (Fridrik Skulason) writes:
->>>    .... what should the group be called ?  Some possibilities are :
->>>    ............
->>>         as some people are VERY unhappy about .r6000 or .rs6000, naming
->
->>What's wrong with .rs6000?  (ie. Why are some people unhappy about it?)
->
->I've heard different stories from different people at IBM.  One story 
->has it that "rs" is a registered trademark of some product and therefore
->all sales personnel have been instructed to refer to the product only
->as the RISC/6000.  The other story has it that "rs" is Austrailia is the
->equivalent of the American "BS" and therefore they should refer to the
->product as the RISC/6000.
->
->Anyone know the "real" story?

And there a lot of machines out there running the Xenix variant of Unix on
RS 6000s.  A Radio Shack machine, with the 68000 cpu.

That was noted just about the time IBM announced it.  Then the official
policy became not to refer to it by those initials .

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