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- From: MEB117@psuvm.psu.edu (Matthew E. Bernold)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard,news.groups
- Subject: Re: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Message-ID: <93023.133230MEB117@psuvm.psu.edu>
- Date: 23 Jan 93 18:32:30 GMT
- References: <1993Jan21.131523.10196@spider.co.uk>
- <93021.123116SRK106@psuvm.psu.edu> <1jmrn2INN9ck@fido.asd.sgi.com>
- <1993Jan22.124855.4289@athena.mit.edu> <2B6049B9.12EB6@tct.com>
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- In article <2B6049B9.12EB6@tct.com>, chip@tct.com (Chip Salzenberg) says:
- >
- >According to dmsilev@athena.mit.edu (Daniel M Silevitch):
- >>ibm.pc, or perhaps ibm.pc-clone is better.
- >
- >No -- once you say "pc-clone", the "ibm" part is redundant. Just
- >use comp.sys.pc-clone.*.
- >--
- >Chip Salzenberg at Teltronics/TCT <chip@tct.com>, <73717.366@compuserve.com>
- > "you make me want to break the laws of time and space / you make me
- > want to eat pork / you make me want to staple bagels to my face /
- > and remove them with a pitchfork" -- Weird Al Yankovic, "You Make Me"
-
- Also, the misc.forsale.computers group has already split, and it's group for
- the pc/ibm-pc/x86/pc-clone/whatever is misc.forsale.computers.pc-clone
-
- We might want to concider keeping consistency across all the computer related
- newsgroups and use the pc-clone moniker. FYI, I liked the idea of using
- pc-clone BEFORE I noticed the split in m.f.c had used it.
-
- Matthew E. Bernold MEB117@PSUVM.PSU.EDU
- <<APOCALYPSE>> meb@haydn.psu.edu
-