when is UNIX UNIX

Dave Cohrs dave at uwvax.UUCP
Mon Nov 19 02:32:18 AEST 1984


> It does indeed seem that the UNIX trademark has to be used as an adjective.
> I nearly giggled out loud when I saw an AT&T advertising blurb that described
> "uucp" as "UNIX operating system to UNIX operating system copy" rather than
> the apparently-forbidden "UNIX to UNIX copy".

But that isn't even really correct -- we talk to a VMS site with uucp, and
a site with a Harris (running vulcan or whatever they call it) is trying out
a version of uucp on us also.
-- 
(Bug?  What bug?  That's a feature!)

Dave Cohrs
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