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  3. From: bobk@gibdo.engr.washington.edu (Bob)
  4. Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard,news.groups
  5. Subject: Re: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
  6. Date: 21 Jan 1993 22:36:11 GMT
  7. Organization: University of Washington
  8. Lines: 22
  9. Message-ID: <1993Jan21.222241.16376@gibdo.engr.washington.edu>
  10. NNTP-Posting-Host: gibdo.engr.washington.edu
  11.  
  12. SRK106@psuvm.psu.edu (Senthil Ramas Kumar) writes:
  13. | but, I somehow feel that just keeping "pc" instead of "ibm.pc" is too
  14. | generic, and can be very confusing to people.
  15.  
  16.   I don't think the term "pc" is too confusing.  Everyone has been using
  17.   that term for years to refer to DOS/Intel based systems.  IBM has very
  18.   little to do with it anymore.  The term "pc" is probably less confusing
  19.   to most people than any other term.
  20.  
  21.   I'd like to see:
  22.  
  23.     comp.pc.hardware
  24.     comp.pc.sound
  25.     comp.pc.video
  26.     comp.pc.drives
  27.     comp.pc.misc
  28.     etc.
  29.  
  30.   ==
  31.  
  32.   Bob                                       Seattle, Washington
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