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bruner@sp15.csrd.uiuc.edu (John Bruner) writes:

>In article <KANDALL.92Sep9170758@globalize.nsg.sgi.com> kandall@nsg.sgi.com (Michael Kandall) writes:
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>The term "UNIX" has not fallen into common use in the sense than it refers
>to any "UNIX-like" product. 
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>			     To ensure that this does not happen AT&T
>must (and has) taken action to prevent BSDI from using the trademark
>in an inappropriate way.
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The hell it hasn't! AT&T/USL are several years too late. I was using UN*X for 
over a year before I even heard of AT&T System V. At CU Boulder, we don't even 
have any SysV machines that I know of, yet we refer to all of our UN*X boxes as
"UNIX". It has been at least several years since "UNIX" meant AT&T System V, 
and I bet nobody outside of AT&T and USL still mean that when they say "UNIX". 
I say "UNIX" does indeed refer to any UNIX-like product. In fact, I would say 
"UNIX" is now understood to mean a general class of OS's to most people in the 
computing field.

Any other opinions?

Scott

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