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From: dolf@idca.tds.PHILIPS.nl (Dolf Grunbauer)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Looking for a really odd computer
Message-ID: <509@ssp9.idca.tds.philips.nl>
Date: 8 Oct 90 11:28:48 GMT
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Reply-To: dolf@idca.tds.philips.nl (Dolf Grunbauer)
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In article <3300188@m.cs.uiuc.edu> gillies@m.cs.uiuc.edu writes:
>I am surprised DEC has not sued over the reuse of the trademark "VAX".
>After all, the beatles were nasty enough to sue Apple when they wanted
>to offer a MIDI interface.
It is a little more subtle than this. When Apple (= the computer company)
started they contacted the Beatles. They (= The Beatles Apple) said that
is was ok to use Apple as name as long as they (= the computer company)
would not get involved with music. The Apple computer company agreed.
Now they (= apple computers) started MIDI and that is when the trouble
started. So I am only expecting trouble with VAX when it is going to
implement user programmable interfaces in their vacuum cleaners or when
DEC builds vacuum cleaners into their machines.
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