jpm@bnl44.UUCP (John McNamee) (06/18/85)
This has been talked about in net.micro.68k (and about 5 other groups where the discussion never really belonged in the first place), but I haven't seen anything in net.news.group. A new group is really needed to contain the debates over the merits and flaws of various microcomputer CPUs. It seems to be human (well, at least programmer) nature to argue over which chip is best, and having the various vendors on the net only makes it worse. These debates are not going to go away, so I think it is time to create an appropriate home for them. Before anybody claims that the debates are totally worthless, let me point out that they are interesting and useful to some people (myself included). While they do contain a lot of worthless flames, some really good information is also posted (the kind of information that can only come from actually working with a chip, something not everybody gets the chance to do in the case of new chips). -- John McNamee ..!decvax!philabs!sbcs!bnl44!jpm jpm@BNL44.ARPA "MS-DOS is a communist plot"