Macintosh and Mcintosh - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

20 Sep 2002

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 1) I did not know that Sun made unix/pc/mac compatible
solutions that early; my experience with such products was
limited to Sun's PC-NFS, which I liked a lot at the time. 
Yup, I have this software and hardward (TOPS Flashcard)

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 2) Why the name TOPS? Isn't that the name of an OS
used in
some PDP's, such as the legendary SIMTEL-20? 
Because Sun didn't come up with the name. TOPS did. They were a 
standalone company at one point, and Sun bought them and kept the name.

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 3) Inside the box, I found exactly the kind of
appletalk connector 
that I ended up building from a Farallon phonenet connector 
a few days ago. 
Yup. The DE9 version was available as it was used on the PCs, as well as 
most repeaters and some bridges. I have a few of that style (I didn't 
offer them to you because I need them for my repeater and PCs on my 
Appletalk network).

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 "Macintosh is a trademark of McIntosh Laboratory,
Inc., licensed
to Apple Computer, Inc."

So did McIntosh sue Apple over trademark infringement and win?
Did Apple eventually buy the Macintosh trademark from McIntosh?
I never knew about this; please clarify what happened. 
This I don't know about. I know some of the details with the Apple 
Records deal for the Apple name, but I didn't know anything about a deal 
with McIntosh labs (is that the audio company?)

-chris
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