mash@mips.COM (John Mashey) (08/23/89)
In article <6309@hubcap.clemson.edu> panoff@hubcap.clemson.edu (Robert M. Panoff) writes: >In article <675@uakari.primate.wisc.edu>, bin@primate.wisc.edu (Brain in Neutral) writes: >> So how does Sears get away with calling this vacuum cleaner of theirs a VAX? >> Isn't that name trademarked or something by Digital? >The name was earlier tradmarked by a British Maker of Vacuums. Since >Sears started carrying other brand names besides their own Kenmore or >Craftsman lines, they are going for outside supplier more and more. >One such supplier is this British company and their vacuum cleaner >is VAX. Appears DEC will have to prove priority, which it may not be >able to do. This is in the fine traditiion of UNIX bookshelves from the '50s; somewhere at home I still have a copy of the ad for them. -- -john mashey DISCLAIMER: <generic disclaimer, I speak for me only, etc> UUCP: {ames,decwrl,prls,pyramid}!mips!mash OR mash@mips.com DDD: 408-991-0253 or 408-720-1700, x253 USPS: MIPS Computer Systems, 930 E. Arques, Sunnyvale, CA 94086