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From: omega@ut-ngp.UUCP (Omega.Mosley`)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Silly IBM law suit
Message-ID: <6151@ut-ngp.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 4-Sep-87 17:55:30 EDT
Article-I.D.: ut-ngp.6151
Posted: Fri Sep  4 17:55:30 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 5-Sep-87 20:44:25 EDT
References: <681@neoucom.UUCP> <15000019@silver>
Organization: UTexas Computation Center, Austin, Texas
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In article <15000019@silver>, creps@silver.bacs.indiana.edu writes:
> 
> 
> >>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?
> 
...how about Comp.sys.IBM.Buahaha!

...or Comp.sys.IBM.snicker.snicker.snicker

...or Comp.sys.IBM./2 (just to see what they'd say...)


....or, if you REALLY want to drop the I-word from the newsgroup, then we could
call it Comp.sys.msdos.machines, although it would sort of alienate our UNIX's
and our soon-to-be OS/2 (oops!) junkies...


						Omega.Mosley


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