RE: i/os... -- MIDRANGE-L

Subject: RE: i/os...
From: "Dennis Lovelady" <iseries@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2010 12:55:27 -0400
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Because Cisco already owns the trademark on i/OS, and Apple is
licensing it, and using the lowercase i for /everything/ (and was doing
so before IBM was)

Nobody else seems to remember that Compaq (now HP) had that
lower-case-initial-i in their iPAQ products before the turn of the decade.
Back then I always thought that the name iPOD was a poor choice, for that
reason. Funny how things turn out.

Dennis Lovelady
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