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

Richard Tobin richard at aiai.ed.ac.uk
Thu Mar 14 05:30:57 AEST 1991


>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.

Of course, your interests may not coincide with AT&T's, so feel
free to call it whatever you like ("MSDOS version 6", for example).

-- Richard
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