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Re: lynx-dev welcome message
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T.E.Dickey |
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Re: lynx-dev welcome message |
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Mon, 4 May 1998 20:17:22 -0400 (EDT) |
> this harks back to pre-history (for me):
> today, we also cover DOS, Win32, OS/2, Mac (at least);
> and could we say `Unix' normally (i've never understood `Un*x':
> is it a joke? a copyright issue? some esoteric piece of history?)?
Unix (or UNIX) is a trademark (the ownership travels periodically).
Since most people think that if it looks like Unix and acts like Unix,
it's the same as Unix, they just avoid the issue & cancel one of the
letters (e.g,. "*nix", "Un*x").
> SUPPORT ___________//___, Philip Webb : address@hidden
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