Author: Jeremiah Penery
Date: 11:12:06 10/20/99
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On October 20, 1999 at 13:59:12, Howard Exner wrote: >On October 20, 1999 at 11:42:18, KarinsDad wrote: > >>Now, this should not be a major issue UNTIL Dr. Hsu attempts to sell Deep Blue >>Junior in the marketplace. At that point in time, I would not be surprised if >>Amir did not take him to court over it since it is obvious that regardless of >>when Dr. Hsu gave Deep Blue Junior it's name, Amir's product arrived in the >>market WAY before DB Jr. > >I realize this thread is about the word, "Junior", but as I side issue I wonder >if Hsu will use the word "blue" in the new release, whenever that is. Blue is >associated with IBM in the computer world and if IBM no longer is part of the >project then maybe Hsu will want to choose a different name in order to >break the association with IBM? Here's something interesting I've found. A company called 'Deep Blue Pacific Computers' (http://www.deepbluepacific.com/). Because we all know about IBM's 'Deep Blue', but IBM also made a machine they called 'Pacific Blue' (not for playing chess). This situation seems pretty similar.
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