On Mon, Mar 02, 1998 at 08:24:42AM -0500, Tom Mariner wrote:
> In fact, IBM copyrighted the term "byte" which is one of the reasons that

Perhaps you mean trademarked - a single word cannot be copyrighted since it
 doesn't
constitute a "work" under copyright law. In any case this surprises me - do you
have any references to substantiate this?

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