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- From: suopanki@stekt3.oulu.fi (Heikki T. Suopanki)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard,news.groups
- Subject: Re: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Message-ID: <SUOPANKI.93Jan21212738@stekt3.oulu.fi>
- Date: 21 Jan 93 19:27:38 GMT
- References: <1993Jan21.131523.10196@spider.co.uk>
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- Organization: Unixverstas Olutensin, Finlandia
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- In-Reply-To: Senthil Ramas Kumar's message of Thu, 21 Jan 1993 12:31:16 EST
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- >>>>> On Thu, 21 Jan 1993 12:31:16 EST, Senthil Ramas Kumar <SRK106@psuvm.psu.edu> said:
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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.
-
- How about "pc-clone"?
- There are already comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit and
- comp.unix.pc-clone.16bit groups.
-
- -Heikki
-