Creating a newsgroup for the 6000-series ?

[Chris McCoy]

In <6284 at darkstar.ucsc.edu> hugo at spica.ucsc.edu (Hugo Calendar) writes:

>In article <2085 at krafla.rhi.hi.is> frisk at rhi.hi.is (Fridrik Skulason) writes:
>>    .... what should the group be called ?  Some possibilities are :
>>    ............
>>         as some people are VERY unhappy about .r6000 or .rs6000, naming

>What's wrong with .rs6000?  (ie. Why are some people unhappy about it?)

I've heard different stories from different people at IBM.  One story 
has it that "rs" is a registered trademark of some product and therefore
all sales personnel have been instructed to refer to the product only
as the RISC/6000.  The other story has it that "rs" is Austrailia is the
equivalent of the American "BS" and therefore they should refer to the
product as the RISC/6000.

Anyone know the "real" story?
 
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