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- From: dab6@po.CWRU.Edu (Douglas A. Bell)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard,news.groups
- Subject: Re: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Date: 22 Jan 1993 17:19:25 GMT
- Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
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- References: <1993Jan22.031521.22641@julian.uwo.ca>
- Reply-To: dab6@po.CWRU.Edu (Douglas A. Bell)
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- In a previous article, wlsmith@valve.heart.rri.uwo.ca (Wayne Smith) says:
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- >In article <ANKI.93Jan21212738@stekt3.oulu.fi> suopanki@phoenix.oulu.fi writes:
- >>> 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.
- >
- >I wasn't aware of those groups. Do they focus on operating system
- >discussions, or specific unix-related pc hardware?
- >
- >Is the "clone" in .pc-clone really needed?
- >
- >The existance of these .unix.pc-clone groups makes me wonder if we shouldn't
- >have:
- >
- >comp.sys.pc.unix
- >comp.sys.pc.dos
- >comp.sys.pc.os/2 (?)
- >comp.sys.pc.video
- >comp.sys.pc.drives
- >comp.sys.pc.sound
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- I think comp.os.msdos and comp.os.os2 take care of the dos and os2 needs.
- Unix has it's own areas.
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- comp.sys.pc.video
- comp.sys.pc.audio
- comp.sys.pc.drives
- comp.sys.pc.systems <- to discuss PC vendors
- comp.sys.pc.misc
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