Subject: Re: Omnibus 48

From: [email-masked] (Anthony J Stieber)
Date: 14 Nov 1992 20:27:06 GMT

In article <[email-masked]> [email-masked] (Flavio Casetta) writes:
>the spreadsheet developed at ForCALC has a name.
>It will be called OMNIBUS since it is worth of using
>by everybody for the most different purposes.
>
>Of course this mark has been registered.

DEC's OMNIBUS trademark for one of the PDP-8 minicomputer buses is no
longer valid?  Even if it isn't, are you sure you want to give your
software the same name as some DEC hardware?   DEC's trademark was
registered as late as 1977 (the most recent book I've got).  PDP-8
based systems were only discontinued a couple years ago.

Of course, a product that allows an HP-48SX to hook up to an
OMNIBUS computer would be quite valuable.  A 48 might be the most
powerful peripheral that a PDP-8 could have :-).
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