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To: Bipin Prasad who wrote (817)	8/3/1998 11:46:00 PM
From: TTOSBT	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 5102

Re: "What does Unisys mean anyway? ......." I'm only guessing here, short for United Systems? Weren't they a merger of two huge mainframe manufacturer Sperry-Vac or Sperry-Ran or something? TTOSBT

To: Bipin Prasad who wrote (817)	8/4/1998 12:46:00 AM
From: David Miller	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 5102

Unisys was certainly a far-sighted pick in 1991, congratulations. As I recall, though, the name change was a requirement of the merger - neither Univac nor Burroughs wanted to take the other's name, so they had to find a new one. I think that the reason many people object to the name Inprise is that as well as being ugly, it was totally unnecessary. david