gary@apexepa.UUCP (Gary Wisniewski) (09/14/88)
In article <14134@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> dean@violet.berkeley.edu (Dean Pentcheff) writes: >I heartily support the idea of a technical subgroup! Someone want to >volunteer to collect votes on a formal basis? Since the general sentiment seems to be in favor of a comp.sys.ibm.pc.tech group, I would be glad to collect votes to see if we can collect the required minimum. In summary: comp.sys.ibm.pc.tech would be a technical newsgroup devoted to dicussion of issues of importance to *programmers* of IBM PC/AT/PS2 computers and compatibles. This is analogous to the comp.sys.mac.programmers group for Mac people. When you vote, indicate any naming preference. Personally, I would prefer comp.sys.ibm.pc.programmers, since it's more specific. However, discussion seems to have indicated comp.sys.ibm.pc.tech E-mail to the signature address, or to gary@apexepa.uucp if you have a smarter mailer. I will summarize progress. -- Gary J. Wisniewski Apex Software Corporation {allegra,bellcore,cadre}!pitt!darth!apexepa!gary Phone: (412) 681-4343
pete@octopus.UUCP (Pete Holzmann) (09/16/88)
In article <345@apexepa.UUCP> gary@apexepa.UUCP (Gary Wisniewski) writes: >Since the general sentiment seems to be in favor of a comp.sys.ibm.pc.tech >group, I would be glad to collect votes to see if we can collect the >required minimum. Now that it is completely obvious that IBM is no longer leading the pack of PC-compatible computer manufacturers, I submit that it is time to begin a long overdue correction to the Usenet namespace. Let's make the new group comp.sys.pc.tech, or maybe even comp.sys.dos.tech, since we don't really discuss *nix on PC's, nor OS/2 (much). I'd prefer the simple 'pc', since most everyone knows what that means. Apples, Amigas, Ataris, etc are rarely confused with 'pc's, so I don't see a problem with taking the name for the PC-and-compatibles marketplace. I suppose we could use 'isa' (Industry-Standard-Architecture), but that makes me gag. Pete -- OOO __| ___ Peter Holzmann, Octopus Enterprises OOOOOOO___/ _______ USPS: 19611 La Mar Court, Cupertino, CA 95014 OOOOO \___/ UUCP: {hpda,pyramid}!octopus!pete ___| \_____ Phone: 408/996-7746