Can you trademark something that someone else has been using for decades? Input/Output Supervisor.
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [[email protected]] on behalf of Tony Harminc [[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, January 27, 2021 4:05 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Recruiters are looking for mainframers On Wed, 27 Jan 2021 at 09:23, Radoslaw Skorupka <[email protected]> wrote: > Not to mention i-stuff from Apple and confusion. What is OS name for > System i? It was" i5/OS", now it is "IBM i". In short just "i". "i > operating system". And "iOS" is Apple OS. There were no confusion with > OS/400. And "IOS" is a Cisco OS. Hard to imagine that those two didn't get into a trademark battle over that one. Tony H. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
