ccplumb@watmath.UUCP (11/13/87)
In article <1953@ttrdc.UUCP> levy@ttrdc.UUCP (Daniel R. Levy) writes: >In article <8888@utzoo.UUCP>, henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) signs: >>Those who do not understand Unix | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology > ^^^^ >>are condemned to reinvent it. | {allegra,ihnp4,decvax,utai}!utzoo!henry > >That's THE UNIX* OPERATING SYSTEM, Buster! > >* Registered Trademark of AT&T I, for one, think Unix falls into the same category as Kleenex, Aspirin, and Xerox - a registered trademark, but too common to bother with the footnotes. Everyone has seen this fact in all the hardcopy manuals quite often enough that to know it's not really a generic name, but wants to use it as one. Should we have GNARTOATT instead of GNU??? -- -Colin (watmath!ccplumb) Zippy says: CONGRATULATIONS! Now should I make thinly veiled comments about DIGNITY, self-esteem and finding TRUE FUN in your RIGHT VENTRICLE??
lewisd@homxc.UUCP (David Lewis) (11/17/87)
In article <15518@watmath.waterloo.edu>, ccplumb@watmath.waterloo.edu (Colin Plumb) writes: > In article <1953@ttrdc.UUCP> levy@ttrdc.UUCP (Daniel R. Levy) writes: > >In article <8888@utzoo.UUCP>, henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) signs: > >>Those who do not understand Unix | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology > > ^^^^ > >>are condemned to reinvent it. | {allegra,ihnp4,decvax,utai}!utzoo!henry > > > >That's THE UNIX* OPERATING SYSTEM, Buster! > > > >* Registered Trademark of AT&T > > I, for one, think Unix falls into the same category as Kleenex, > Aspirin, and Xerox - a registered trademark, but too common to bother > with the footnotes. I don't think so. Have you yet seen "Unix" in lower case? -- David B. Lewis {ihnp4,allegra,ulysses}!homxc!lewisd 201-615-5306 EDT
riddle@woton.UUCP (11/18/87)
> > I, for one, think Unix falls into the same category as Kleenex, > > Aspirin, and Xerox - a registered trademark, but too common to bother > > with the footnotes. > > I don't think so. Have you yet seen "Unix" in lower case? Here's a grep from a few days' worth of comp.unix.* articles: Anything that uses the unix ctime library routine is going to be in Most of the software was originally produced for a version 7 unix, Some of the PC-based unix's might be worth looking into, if we a real nice 68020 , 68881, unix ... well its nice. thus, as it zips along, is a central unix host, wjvax, that runs all the uucp and on my AT&T unix-pc. I had meant to use -O to invoke the optimizer. unix from "multics" - similar but unified unix compatible XBBS unix four people managed to destroy things within the same day unix manuals list it as "become SuperUser" values will speed up the unix clock, higher values slow well defined times. Too bad unix doesn't handle generations in where cryptic unix command names came from? I've never seen a unix [By the way, what say we move this discussion to misc.legal?] --- Prentiss Riddle ("Aprendiz de todo, maestro de nada.") --- Opinions expressed are not necessarily those of Shriners Burns Institute. --- riddle@woton.UUCP {ihnp4,harvard}!ut-sally!im4u!woton!riddle
gwyn@brl-smoke.UUCP (11/19/87)
In article <2165@homxc.UUCP> lewisd@homxc.UUCP (David Lewis) writes: >I don't think so. Have you yet seen "Unix" in lower case? cd /; ls
decot@hpisod2.HP.COM (Dave Decot) (11/24/87)
> In article <2165@homxc.UUCP> lewisd@homxc.UUCP (David Lewis) writes: > >I don't think so. Have you yet seen "Unix" in lower case? > > cd /; ls Hmmm... I tried that on my systems and got: bin/ etc/ lib/ mnt/ usr/ dev/ hp-ux lost+found tmp/ :-) Dave Decot hpda!decot