Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!aristotle.cis.ohio-state.edu!welch From: welch@aristotle.cis.ohio-state.edu (Arun Welch) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ti.explorer Subject: Re: This group, other lispms Message-ID: Date: 17 Oct 89 15:55:34 GMT References: <65619@philabs.Philips.Com> Sender: news@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu Organization: OSU-LAIR Lines: 20 In-reply-to: mkr@philabs.philips.com's message of 16 Oct 89 21:00:26 GMT >My question is "why is there a comp.sys.ti.explorer, when >there is no comp.sys.lispm". This group uses very little >bandwidth, so saying that "there are so many people who >wish to discuss Explorers" is not a valid arg. I feel >that if we included other lispms in this discussion, we >might all benefit. I tried to host a generalised-lispm mailing list once upon a time, when there were even more vendors on the market, and the general purpose workstations were just entering the market. The list never expanded beyond 15 entries, and died of starvation shortly after. My guess is that lispm users have religiously-held beliefs, and are loath to discuss those beliefs in the presence of the infidels :-). There are mailing lists/newsgroups for all the major vendors, and inter-vendor discussion generally consists of messages of the sort "I'm so glad I'm on machine xyz again, I had to suffer on machine zyx for 6 months, and it was painful." on the respective lists. ...arun