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From: richard@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: AT&T "nth Edition" vs. "Release n"
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Date: 13 Mar 91 19:30:57 GMT
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Reply-To: richard@aiai.UUCP (Richard Tobin)
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>Except that I've seen people from the commercial side of AT&T complain
>loudly about calling System V Release X.Y "5.X.Y."  Apparantly, they want
>people to use the trademarked name for lots of legal reasons I don't
>understand too well.

Of course, your interests may not coincide with AT&T's, so feel
free to call it whatever you like ("MSDOS version 6", for example).

-- Richard
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