Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!lll-winken!lll-lcc!lll-tis!ames!necntc!ima!think!ephraim From: ephraim@think.COM (ephraim vishniac) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: "THINK" versus "Lightspeed" Message-ID: <17085@think.UUCP> Date: 24 Feb 88 16:01:51 GMT References: Sender: usenet@think.UUCP Reply-To: ephraim@vidar.think.com.UUCP (ephraim vishniac) Organization: Thinking Machines Corporation, Cambridge, MA Lines: 28 In article rs4u+@andrew.cmu.edu (Richard Siegel) writes: >The maker of the LightspeedC and Lightspeed Pascal languages is THINK >Technologies, which is in turn a division of Symantec Corporation. >The easiest way to refer to the company is to call them "THINK". Just to make things more confusing for you uucp buffs, the easiest way to contact "THINK" is *not* to send e-mail to think!whoever or whoever@think.com, because we're Thinking Machines Corporation. We don't make any Mac-related products, we just use them. (Rich: what machine is THINK on, if any?) >I'm not nitpicking here. There is a real company called "Lightspeed, >Inc." They make desktop-publishing packages for a variety of >computers, the Mac among them. For that matter, there's also a Florida company called "Lightspeed Electronics" which packages Mac systems. I have no idea what claims they have on the name Lightspeed. >Just wanted to clear the air; I don't want to be in the position of >appearing to condone the loose use of a trademarked name.... Ditto. Ephraim Vishniac ephraim@think.com Thinking Machines Corporation / 245 First Street / Cambridge, MA 02142-1214 On two occasions I have been asked, "Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?"