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From: len@array.UUCP (Leonard Vanek)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,talk.bizarre
Subject: Re: Silly IBM law suit
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Date: Fri, 11-Sep-87 08:40:49 EDT
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Posted: Fri Sep 11 08:40:49 1987
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In article <1600@frog.UUCP> john@frog.UUCP (John Woods, Software) writes:
>
>When IBM trademarked PL/1, the also trademarked PL/2, PL/3, PL/4, ... through
>I don't know how many.

I heard that they went up to PL/99 or PL/100, but foolishly neglected to
trademark PL/360. Niklaus Wirth then proceeded to use the name PL/360
for his Algol-like assembly language for the IBM System/360.

By the way, in response to an earlier posting on this subject,
It is Series/1 not System/1 that IBM has had for many years.
I spent 5 years programming on that most unusual machine.

Len