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- From: mig@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Meir I Green)
- Subject: Re: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.002036.3861@news.columbia.edu>
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- References: <1993Jan21.141858.24970@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> <93021.123116SRK106@psuvm.psu.edu> <1jmrn2INN9ck@fido.asd.sgi.com>
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 00:20:36 GMT
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- In article <1jmrn2INN9ck@fido.asd.sgi.com> autry@sgi.com (Larry Autry) writes:
- >In article <93021.123116SRK106@psuvm.psu.edu> SRK106@psuvm.psu.edu (Senthil Ramas Kumar) 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.
- >>
- >>Kumar
- >What about comp.sys.intel.*. Is there something wrong with that?
- >--
- >Larry Autry
- >Silicon Graphics, St. Louis
- >autry@sgi.com
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- Hey! This IBM PC AT 386 clone uses an *AMD* 40 MHz chip and OS/2 2.1 beta :-)
- No slowpoke Intel 33 MHz in here!
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