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From: celerity@bucasb.bu.edu (Roger B.A. Klorese)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Re: Name for Amiga U**X
Message-ID: <576658257.1109@bucasb.bu.edu>
Date: 10 Apr 88 06:50:57 GMT
References: <4475@megaron.arizona.edu> <5500014@hpfcdc.HP.COM>
Reply-To: rogerk@mips.com (Roger B.A. Klorese)
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In article <5500014@hpfcdc.HP.COM> stroyan@hpfcdc.HP.COM (Mike Stroyan) writes:
>> can't Commmodore just call it Unix?
>
>No.  AT&T will license the software, but they won't license the name.
>The only exceptions to this are Microsoft and Sun.  Microsoft struck
>a deal with AT&T where Microsoft hands over some Xenix features and
>AT&T hands over the name.  As far as I can tell, Sun uses it because
>there marketing department is brash and will do anything that they
>can continue to get away with.

Sun's operating system is called "SunOS", not UNIX.  You may use the
U-word in describing your operating system, as long as you use it as
an adjective, say yours is derived from AT&T's, and show their trademark.

Also, certified ABI (application binary interface) implementors may call
their products "UNIX", which explains why Motorola, Intel, and Sun will
likely do so.  I *know* that MIPS will be permitted to do so for its
kernel when the AT&T/MIPS ABI is finalized...