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From: mark@tove.UUCP (Mark Weiser)
Newsgroups: net.sources
Subject: Re: vc (registered trademark, SII)
Message-ID: <98@tove.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 22-Jan-85 22:35:00 EST
Article-I.D.: tove.98
Posted: Tue Jan 22 22:35:00 1985
Date-Received: Thu, 24-Jan-85 19:18:47 EST
References: <378@sii.UUCP>
Reply-To: mark@tove.UUCP (Mark Weiser)
Organization: U of Maryland, Laboratory for Parallel Computation, C.P., MD
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In article <378@sii.UUCP> wje@sii.UUCP (Bill Ezell) writes:
>In reference to the modified 'sc' spreadsheet sources that were posted
>to net.sources, I would like to point out that there is another
>spreadsheet for Unix, called 'vc'. 'vc' is a registered trademark
>of Software Innovations, Inc.  The sii spreadsheet is nothing like sc,
>in that it supports multiple windows, automatic recalculation
>ordering (via dependency graph ordering), etc.  The sii spreadsheet has
>been around since late 1981.
>
>The main reason that I'm posting this article is that the use of the name 'vc'
>for the modified version of 'sc' is causing mass confusion about what product
>is what, and is violating sii's trademark.
>

I am sorry if anyone was confused.  (No signs of confusion have reached
me, just lots of bugs fixes and "thanks for the posting messages"), but
perhaps the confused folks are too dazed to write.

I have never heard of SII's vc.  How about posting the source? :-)

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