AT&T "nth Edition" vs. "Release n"

Sean Eric Fagan sef at kithrup.COM
Wed Mar 13 20:06:47 AEST 1991


In article <20017 at alice.att.com> andrew at alice.att.com (Andrew Hume) writes:
>The commercial unix, System V, has various names
>that look like 5.3.2, or Release 4.0 (== 5.4.0).

Except that I've seen people from the commercial side of AT&T complain
loudly about calling System V Release X.Y "5.X.Y."  Apparantly, they want
people to use the trademarked name for lots of legal reasons I don't
understand too well.

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