>1) I did not know that Sun made unix/pc/mac compatible
>solutions that early; my experience with such products was
>limited to Sun's PC-NFS, which I liked a lot at the time.
Yup, I have this software and hardward (TOPS Flashcard)
>2) Why the name TOPS? Isn't that the name of an OS used in
>some PDP's, such as the legendary SIMTEL-20?
Because Sun didn't come up with the name. TOPS did. They were a
standalone company at one point, and Sun bought them and kept the name.
>3) Inside the box, I found exactly the kind of appletalk connector
>that I ended up building from a Farallon phonenet connector
>a few days ago.
Yup. The DE9 version was available as it was used on the PCs, as well as
most repeaters and some bridges. I have a few of that style (I didn't
offer them to you because I need them for my repeater and PCs on my
Appletalk network).
>"Macintosh is a trademark of McIntosh Laboratory, Inc., licensed
>to Apple Computer, Inc."
>
>So did McIntosh sue Apple over trademark infringement and win?
>Did Apple eventually buy the Macintosh trademark from McIntosh?
>I never knew about this; please clarify what happened.
This I don't know about. I know some of the details with the Apple
Records deal for the Apple name, but I didn't know anything about a deal
with McIntosh labs (is that the audio company?)
-chris
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