mandel@vax.anes.tulane.edu (Jeff E Mandel MD MS) (02/14/91)
It sounds like there is at least some interest in splitting off the HP community into a separate group. Does anyone have any compelling reason why this should not be done? If not, I will put together the proposal for the vote next week (when I've recovered from Mardi Gras). Jeff E Mandel MD MS Asst Professor of Anesthesiology Tulane University School of Medicine New Orleans, LA
mamos@uafhp.uark.edu (Mark _E_ Amos) (02/14/91)
mandel@vax.anes.tulane.edu (Jeff E Mandel MD MS) writes: >It sounds like there is at least some interest in splitting off the HP >community into a separate group. Does anyone have any compelling reason why >this should not be done? If not, I will put together the proposal for the vote (references to wanton hedonism deleted :-)) I would say a spinoff group is inevitable, the question remains as to HOW/WHAT kind of spinoff. The best idea I have heard to date is the .hack someone mentioned (Rich, I think it was) to have a generic .handhelds for general discussion and the .hack as programs/bugs/technical stuff.. Then the question arises of what to do if other types of machines other than the HP-48 get a following of hacks. Well, we could 'if' ourselves to death on this one, but the idea of a tech/programming spinoff appeals to me more than a strictly HP-48/28 group, although I am interested in the 48 (I have one) and in the hacking part (I do so myself) I also see Rich's point for those who have 48's but do not necessarily want to read the tech stuff to get the discussion. Further, what about the issue of later models (68SX?)....? Would you believe a coupla spinoffs? comp.sources.handhelds? comp.sources.handhelds.d? Jsut a suggestion, but the more I think about it the more it makes me cringe... Too many ifs for me. -- ============================================================================== Mark _E_ Amos | University of Arkansas Computer Science Engineering mamos@uafhp.uark.edu | mea1@engr.uark.edu | (emphasise the Computer Engineering please) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "Man's mind, when stretched to a new idea, never goes back to its original dimension." -Oliver Wendell Holmes ==============================================================================
grue@batserver.cs.uq.oz.au (Frobozz) (02/14/91)
In <6118@rex.cs.tulane.edu> mandel@vax.anes.tulane.edu (Jeff E Mandel MD MS) writes: >It sounds like there is at least some interest in splitting off the HP >community into a separate group. Does anyone have any compelling reason why >this should not be done? If not, I will put together the proposal for the vote >next week (when I've recovered from Mardi Gras). I agree that most of the bandwidth of this group is related to hp's. But is the remainder of the bandwidth large enough to warrant a group to itself? [ From what I've seen, there is very little non-hp related traffic present ] Pauli seeya Paul Dale | Internet/CSnet: grue@batserver.cs.uq.oz.au Dept of Computer Science| Bitnet: grue%batserver.cs.uq.oz.au@uunet.uu.net Uni of Qld | JANET: grue%batserver.cs.uq.oz.au@uk.ac.ukc Australia, 4072 | EAN: grue@batserver.cs.uq.oz | UUCP: uunet!munnari!batserver.cs.uq.oz!grue f4e6g4Qh4++ | JUNET: grue@batserver.cs.uq.oz.au --
streeter@theory.lcs.mit.edu (Kenneth B. Streeter) (02/14/91)
In article <7286@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au> grue@batserver.cs.uq.oz.au writes: >In <6118@rex.cs.tulane.edu> mandel@vax.anes.tulane.edu (Jeff E Mandel MD MS) writes: > >I agree that most of the bandwidth of this group is related to hp's. But is >the remainder of the bandwidth large enough to warrant a group to itself? >[ From what I've seen, there is very little non-hp related traffic present ] You're right, most of the bandwidth here is related to HP handhelds. However, part of the reason for this is that users of other handhelds just get tired of wading through so many HP articles, that they stop reading the group, figuring that it just isn't worth it. Personally, I read this group not the for HP articles, but the occasional Sharp PC-1500/PC-1350 articles, and other basic-interpreter handhelds, as well as info on things like the Atari Portfolio. (BTW, if anybody has a Sharp PC-1500, Tandy PC-1/2/3, or Atari Portfolio that they'd be interested in selling, I may be a buyer...) -- Kenneth B. Streeter | ARPA: streeter@im.lcs.mit.edu MIT LCS, Room NE43-350 | UUCP: ...!uunet!im.lcs.mit.edu!streeter 545 Technology Square | (617) 253-2614 (work) Cambridge, MA 02139 | (617) 225-2249 (home)