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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!mips!mips!darwin.sura.net!jvnc.net!princeton!newross!duvel!mab From: mab@duvel.princeton.edu (Matt Blaze) Subject: Re: "UNIX" is not the registered trademark of AT&T in Japan. Message-ID: <mab.713769258@duvel> Sender: news@newross.Princeton.EDU (USENET News System) Organization: Princeton University, Dept. of Computer Science References: <2759@tansei1.tansei.cc.u-tokyo.ac.jp> <1846@adagio.UUCP> Date: 14 Aug 92 05:14:18 GMT Lines: 24 grog@adagio.UUCP (Greg Lehey) writes: >In article <2759@tansei1.tansei.cc.u-tokyo.ac.jp> mhiroshi@tansei.cc.u-tokyo.ac.jp (H. Murakami) writes: >>A little fact that you might be interested in. >> >>In Japan, the word "UNIX" is not the registered trademark of USL nor AT&T, >I don't know the details in Germany, but next time you want to rent a >car in Germany, you might find it amusing to rent it from a company >called UNIX-Rent-Autovermietung-Beteiligungsgesellschaft mbH in >Frankfurt am Main (telephone +49-69-619054). No, I don't have any >connection with the company - I just found the name amusing. >-- >Greg Lehey | Tel: +49-6637-1488 >LEMIS | Fax: +49-6637-1489 >Schellnhausen 2, W-6324 Feldatal, Germany >*** NOTE ***: Headers are mangled - reply to grog%lemis@Germany.EU.net UNIX is also the brand name of a fire extinguisher in Egypt. (If you go to the museum in Cairo you'll see lots of them. No, i don't think they're on display). -matt --