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From: john@frog.UUCP (John Woods, Software)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,talk.bizarre
Subject: Re: Silly IBM law suit
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Date: Tue, 8-Sep-87 15:34:00 EDT
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Posted: Tue Sep  8 15:34:00 1987
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In article <1760@brspyr1.BRS.Com>, sam@brspyr1.BRS.Com (Sam Baxter) writes:
> 
> I must agree that claiming that "/2" cannot be used by anybody
> in the computer industry but IBM is ludicrous at best.  (Quick!
> Somebody find another giant company that once-upon-a-time named
> a product *Something*/2!  Then have THEM sue IBM!)
> 
How about using >>1 instead :-) ?

When IBM trademarked PL/1, the also trademarked PL/2, PL/3, PL/4, ... through
I don't know how many.


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