Author: Howard Exner
Date: 12:29:52 10/20/99
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On October 20, 1999 at 14:12:06, Jeremiah Penery wrote: >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. This goes way back, that the term "Big Blue" is synonomous with IBM.
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