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- Organization: Penn State University
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 12:31:16 EST
- From: Senthil Ramas Kumar <SRK106@psuvm.psu.edu>
- Message-ID: <93021.123116SRK106@psuvm.psu.edu>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard,news.groups
- Subject: Re: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- References: <1993Jan21.131523.10196@spider.co.uk>
- <1993Jan21.141858.24970@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
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- In article <1993Jan21.141858.24970@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>,
- cwatters@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Coyt D Watters) says: > >Since the P5 is
- officially the PENTIUM, and there are systems using V20, V30 >and 8088
- processors out there, I think the .x86. designator may not be the >best for
- naming. Maybe the generic "pc" could be used, though all the >competing
- architectures (Amiga, Mac, etc) can claim that they are also >"personal
- computers". > >comp.sys.pc.hardware.misc >comp.sys.pc.hardware.drives
- >comp.sys.pc.hardware.video >comp.sys.pc.hardware.audio
- >comp.sys.pc.software.misc
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-
- I very much agree with you that the term "x86", does not lend it nicely to
- suit the description that we are looking for. Further, as a previous poster
- had pointed out its a little technical in nature, and it _could_ be obscure
- to people, especially those who are new to the area of interest.
-
- but, I somehow feel that just keeping "pc" instead of "ibm.pc" is too
- generic, and can be very confusing to people.
-
- Kumar
-