On 2 July 2017 at 10:15, Charles Mills <charl...@mcn.org> wrote:
> I think you would risk trademark issues as well as name collision issues if 
> you used iBM. And yes, IBM claims the entire space AAA-I99 or perhaps J99, 
> including IBM.

In fact the specific prefix IBM was assigned 30+ years ago to the PL/I
runtime library. Doubtless this is another example of product authors
or their management gaming the system. See also the JES2 macros and
control blocks like $DILBERT and $DOGBERT.

Tony H.

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