zaphod@madnix.UUCP (Ron Bean) (03/03/91)
In Article <771ED61B40001D50@gacvx2.gac.edu>, CW%APG.PH.UCL.AC.UK@pucc.PRINCETON.EDU writes: >.................................. I think it would be very bad to >split the group. It is a group for handheld owners and the 48sx is a >handheld. In the future other machines will come along and people >will rave about them -- will they be thrown off ? -- Thrown off >of c.s.h. for discussing handhelds??? Isn't that completely illogical? What's completely illogical is discussing dissimilar machines in the same newsgroup. Some "handhelds" are designed for number-crunching, and would be difficult to use for any serious amount of text entry. Others are the opposite. If the HP's had qwerty keyboards and larger displays, I might also have opposed the split. And they are not being "thrown off", just given their own newsgroup. Perhaps the split should be: comp.sys.handhelds.tenkey comp.sys.handhelds.qwerty Yes, I know the HP's have more than 10 keys, but you know what I mean, and so would everyone else. You may have noticed that this is the 3rd completely different solution I have proposed, in addition to the one officially under discussion. Any of them would have the desired result. ================== zaphod@madnix.UUCP (Ron Bean) {harvard|rutgers|ucbvax}!uwvax!astroatc!nicmad!madnix!zaphod
frechett@spot.Colorado.EDU (-=Runaway Daemon=-) (03/06/91)
In article <1752@madnix.UUCP> zaphod@madnix.UUCP (Ron Bean) writes: >comp.sys.handhelds.tenkey >comp.sys.handhelds.qwerty Ummm ok, assuming that you are thinking that any machine without qwerty is a number cruncher, where would you put the SHARP Wizard? There are more too.. I could go through Educalc if you like. ian -=Runaway Daemon=-
zaphod@madnix.UUCP (Ron Bean) (03/09/91)
In Article <1991Mar5.164440.23600@csn.org>, frechett@spot.Colorado.EDU (-=Runaway Daemon=-) writes: >In article <1752@madnix.UUCP> zaphod@madnix.UUCP (Ron Bean) writes: >>comp.sys.handhelds.tenkey >>comp.sys.handhelds.qwerty > >Ummm ok, assuming that you are thinking that any machine without qwerty >is a number cruncher, where would you put the SHARP Wizard? There are >more too.. I could go through Educalc if you like. I was thinking that any machine with a keyboard built around a "ten-key" number pad is a number cruncher, and that any serious text machine will have a qwerty keyboard-- including the latest Wizard. I'm also assuming that any machine that does not fit those two categories will be equally difficult to categorize in any other way, and would end up in a ".misc" group anyway. Can you think of a word to describes them? ================== zaphod@madnix.UUCP (Ron Bean) {harvard|rutgers|ucbvax}!uwvax!astroatc!nicmad!madnix!zaphod