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- From: rankin@eql.caltech.edu (Pat Rankin)
- Newsgroups: vmsnet.admin
- Subject: Re: CFD: VMSNET Alpha newsgroup
- Date: 20 Nov 1992 19:38 PST
- Organization: California Institute of Technology
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- Message-ID: <20NOV199219380835@eql.caltech.edu>
- References: <1992Nov18.164347.1@ptavv.llnl.gov> <1992Nov20.075031.1048@beckman.com>
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- > vmsnet.alphaAXP.whatever
-
- Newsgroup names are not case sensitive, so please don't present ones
- which rely on that to convey something. Anyway I thought that "AXP"
- superceded the development name "Alpha", so "alphaaxp" is not only ugly
- but redundant. Use a hyphen if you want to tack two things together.
-
- The login banner on an Alpha running VMS says "OpenVMS AXP (tm)"
- (where VAX/VMS still says "VAX/VMS", without the extra marketeers' nonsense)
- and there's no mention of "Alpha" to be seen. Personally I prefer "Alpha/VMS"
- and "VAX/VMS" and hope to relegate "OpenVMS" to the circular file where
- it belongs.
-
- An Alpha porting group would be useful, but VMS is still VMS and
- there's no need for separate groups for regular software. I can't imagine
- why someone would propose an OSF/1 or WindowsNT group in the vmsnet
- hierarchy though. Haven't we been through this several times before?
-
- Pat Rankin, rankin@eql.caltech.edu
-