[1901] in Humor
HUMOR: Do you use unix on your apples?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (abennett@MIT.EDU)
Mon Feb 17 22:30:31 1997
From: <abennett@MIT.EDU>
To: humor@MIT.EDU
Date: Mon, 17 Feb 1997 22:24:29 EST
From: Merlyn Liberty <merlyn@swcp.com>
From: Gordon Garb <ggarb@apple.com>
Forwarded-by: Martin Minow <minow@apple.com>
Forwarded-by: Patrick Sobalvarro <pgs@pa.dec.com>
Date: 10 Feb 1997 13:19:55 -0800
Organization: Systems Research Center, Digital Equipment Corporation
Yesterday I was hiking through La Ferte Alais, a rural village about
an hour from Paris when I came across this billboard showing three
smiling adolescents and the word "UNIX(R)" emblazoned across the top.
I looked more closely and saw that in smaller print it talked about
how Ciba-Geigy could eliminate fungus problems from your oats crop.
I couldn't quite believe it, especially the (R), but today I found:
http://www.novartis.com/agri/crop/fungicide.html
and on that page:
Newly introduced Novartis fungicide products
include:
Score. is the new broad spectrum for use
on fruits, sugar beets, bananas and
vegetables;
Unix. and Chorusv are for use on cereals
and apples;
But that's not all, Novartis' established fungicide products
include Alto and Dorado (also registered trademarks). It
appears they are working their way through computer and OS names.
They have another fungicide called Topas -- clearly a misspelling.
I can hardly wait for Windows fungicide NT.
It turns out Novartis' US headquarters are in Summit NJ.
My friends at Bell Labs are now trying to get some UNIX literature
for the "UNIX Room".
