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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: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 19:12:56 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan23.230607.28570@nmsu.edu> bgrubb@dante.nmsu.edu (GRUBB) writes:
- >>Why .ibm.pc.* ???
- >>Is there .apple.pc or .mac.pc right now ???
- >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'.
- >Very few. PC means a personal computer; computer designed to be used
- >by one person (Dictionary of Computer Terms 3rd edition) it does NOT mean
- >IBM compatable.
-
- Even though IBM and the other brand-name x86 manufacturers have called
- recent computers PS/2's (etc.) for marketing reasons, who else put the
- PC or Person Computer **On the front** of their product at the time of
- the original IBM PC? Isin't there enough similarity between that "PC"
- and the x86 PC's of today??
- (Interupt assignments, interupt vectors, bus specs, memory maps, etc)!!!!
-
- --> How about comp.sys.x86-pc.* ???
-
- >I am worried that JUST pc will result in a small influx of Amiga and AppleII
- >people since those machinces are ALSO called 'PCs' and a latter influx of
- >the PowerPC crowd.
-
- Don't they already have their own groups, with the names Amiga, etc,
- in the group name? I'm sure PowerPC will have it's own group name
- (comp.sys.powerpc.*) so I don't see how it confuses the situation.
-
- >somewhat irregular in posting.} May be .pc.clone. would be better then
- >.ibm.pc. though JUST .pc. is NOT a good idea.
-
- Why .pc.clone. ? Dosen't that indicate a 2-level hirearchy? If anything,
- it should be .pc-clone.
-