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From: dyer@vaxuum.DEC (Where's the falafel?)
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Subject: Asterisks and UNIX - Who Cares?
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Date: Sun, 25-Mar-84 22:05:30 EST
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| Asterisks and UNIX - Who Cares? |

	Here's something that really gets my goat.  Why is it that
everytime UNIX is mentioned, somebody has to put an asterisk after
it and throw in a footnote that informs us that UNIX is a trademark
of Bell Laboratories?  I for one am getting pretty tired of it.
	As far as I'm concerned, everybody who needs to know already
does know that UNIX is a trademark of Bell Laboratories.  Why grind
it into us again and again?  Who cares?
	I work for DEC, yet you rarely see somebody put an asterisk
after VMS* or TOPS-20** or RSTS-E*** or RSX****!  Nor does one find
it after MS-DOS***** or CPM******.
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*VMS is a trademark of Digital Equipment Corporation.
**TOPS-20 is a trademark of Digital Equipment Corporation.
***RSTS-E is a trademark of Digital Equipment Corporation.
****RSX is a trademark of Digital Equipment Corporation.
*****MS-DOS is a trademark of Microsoft.
******I have no idea who came up with CPM.
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	I mean really, what's the big deal?
		<_Jym_>

| Jym Dyer | DEC Documentation Production Software | Nashua, New Hampshire |
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