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- From: wlsmith@valve.heart.rri.uwo.ca (Wayne Smith)
- Subject: Re: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Organization: The John P. Robarts Research Institute, London, Ontario
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 18:02:29 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan22.150446.10985@nmsu.edu> bgrubb@dante.nmsu.edu (GRUBB) writes:
- >> I don't think the term "pc" is too confusing. Everyone has been using
- >> that term for years to refer to DOS/Intel based systems. IBM has very
- >> little to do with it anymore. The term "pc" is probably less confusing
- >> to most people than any other term.
- >I disagree. A resent article in BYTE said 'in choosing a PC (Mac or IBM)
- >one must be sure of what is expected of the machine.'
-
- Since there are no clones of Apple computers, the term "Mac" is much more
- likely to be used when referring to Apple computers than the term "pc".
-
- If someone is deciding which news group to read, they have already decided
- wheather or not it's a "Mac" based group or a "Pc/MS-DOS/x86/ibm-pc" group.
- Does "pc" appear in the name of any current Mac based groups?
-
- >Also the PowerPC is
- >a PC but it neither a DOS or an intel machine {Its a Mac/IBM UNIX/Motorola
- >machine.}
-
- I think the point of the current ibm-pc.hardware group is mostly for
- HARDWARE discussions. If the PowerPC comes out it should have it's own
- group (why not call it comp.sys.powerpc ?). That group probably won't
- need to be subdivided because it will be a proprietary design and there
- won't be a lot of 3'rd party hardware available for it like ther is for
- the current ISA/EISA/VESA/x86 systems.
-
-
- The PowerPC {IBM's may be out THIS year} will produced by each
- >company to fit the old expandsions. I.e the IBM 601 will likely have support
- >for HD interfaces like IDE and ESDI and BUS interfaces like ISA, MCA, EISA,
- >VESA, and PCI and SCSI-1 while the Apple 601 will support PDS, NuBUS, SCSI-1,
- >and SCSI-2 conections. The term PC has brodened over the years to the point
- >it is NO LONGER a synimem(sp) for IBM-PC.
- >What I would like to see:
- >comp.sys.ibm.pc.advocacy-equivalent of comp.sys.mac.advocacy
- >comp.sys.ibm.pc.bus-discuse bus expandsions
- >comp.sys.ibm.pc.drives
- >comp.sys.ibm.pc.powerpc
- >comp.sys.ibm.pc.sound
- >comp.sys.ibm.pc.video
- >comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
-
- Why .ibm.pc.* ???
- Is there .apple.pc or .mac.pc right now ???
- Since the PowerPC is based on a different processor than the x86 line,
- it should have it's own hierarchy (when or if it ever comes out).
-
- I can't see how IBM or Apple will let the PowerPC use ISA or EISA. IBM's
- strategy on new computer lines seems to be proprietary proprietary
- proprietary. The only link the PowerPC might have with the current pc
- is the bus, and it's by no means clear wheather or not it will be bus-
- compatible.
-