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- Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!news.funet.fi!uwasa.fi!ts
- From: ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi)
- Subject: Re: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Message-ID: <1993Jan24.071035.17735@uwasa.fi>
- Followup-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,news.groups
- Organization: University of Vaasa, Finland
- References: <1993Jan23.230607.28570@nmsu.edu>
- Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 07:10:35 GMT
- Lines: 21
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- In article <1993Jan23.230607.28570@nmsu.edu> bgrubb@dante.nmsu.edu (GRUBB) writes:
- >wlsmith@valve.heart.rri.uwo.ca (Wayne Smith) writes:
- >>Why .ibm.pc.* ???
- >>Is there .apple.pc or .mac.pc right now ???
- >These groups hierachies started long BEFORE 'PC' started to include non-IBM
- >machines like the Mac, Lisa, Apple IIGS, etc, but I get your point.
- >The problem is that 'PC' by itself has STOPPED being a synimum(sp) for IBM.
- >How many products are labeled 'PC compatable' as opposed to 'IBM compatable'.
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- This is a very difficult practical problem because of the history of
- the parlance. On the sofware side one solution has been to use the
- word msdos instead of ibm.pc, but how can we do the same on the
- hardware side so that it is nether too narrow or too broad, because
- both will invite problems.
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- Prof. Timo Salmi Co-moderator of comp.archives.msdos.announce
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