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msla
6 months ago
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It's a DE9, not a DB9 (but we know what you mean)
At a certain point, the genericized trademark is the correct term, like how aspirin is the correct term (only term, really) for a specific preparation of acetylsalicylic acid, even though it was a trademark of the Bayer corporation.
ssl-3
6 months ago
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Yeah. The same thing also happened to heroin, which was also a trademark of Bayer. ;)
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