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Subject: Re: Silly IBM law suit
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Date: Fri, 4-Sep-87 14:34:00 EDT
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>>OK, I'll grant them that.  IBM aslo filed suit against AST for
>>using the suffix "2" in the name of one of their enhancement boards
>>intended for use with the PS/2.  I guess that now that IBM owns the
>>rights to 2, the rest of us will learn to have to make due with the
>>other 9 digits.

>This could pose a problem for me as I have used lots of 2's in many
>of my programs. Do I have to extract them all and send them to IBM ?

   Actually, I thought IBM always did have the rights to "number two."
Everybody seems to be using the term "PC" without IBM complaining. I
personally (no pun intended) would not WANT to use the term "Personal
Computer." Is it just me, or does this kind of thing (along with "user
friendly") make an actual computer scientist want to throw up? If so,
I propose that we think up an alternate term, and refrain from saying
the "PC" word from now on. While we're at it, why don't we change the
name of this group from comp.sys.ibm.pc to something like comp.sys.8088?
--Disclaimer- I'm not fanatical, so I'm not going to lose any sleep over
what I just wrote if most of you don't agree with it. But let's see your
opinions posted about this.

>One thing I thought of was redefineing HEX as:
>
>0 1 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 a b c d e f g
>
>and calling it sexadecimal, so I tried it and asked sombody here

   Wouldn't this be septadecimal?

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Steve Creps on the VAX 8650 running Ultrix 1.2 at Indiana University.
	creps@silver.bacs.indiana.edu
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	around much longer."
Chief: "I noticed when you get to not likin' somebody, they ain't around
	much longer, either."