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From: scott@nastar.UUCP (Scott Barman)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: New newsgroup hierarchy
Message-ID: <687@nastar.UUCP>
Date: 20 Nov 89 19:07:34 GMT
References: <1618.25614348@mccall.uucp> <WAYNE.89Nov16092203@dsndata.uucp> <1989Nov17.174318.21963@world.std.com> <130@toaster.SFSU.EDU>
Reply-To: scott@nastar.UUCP (Scott Barman)
Organization: Digital Transmission Systems (NAS Development Project), Duluth, GA
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In article <130@toaster.SFSU.EDU> eps@cs.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott) writes:
>In article <1989Nov17.174318.21963@world.std.com> bzs@world.std.com 
>	(Barry Shein) writes:
>>                                        Should we start a unix.*
>>hierarchy? A msdos.*? os2.*? Ad nauseum?
>
>Next they'll probably want u3b and unix-pc hierarchies too.
>
>I could swear that VMSNET predates usenet (time to dig up the old
>DECUS stuff...)

Didn't Usenet start in 1978 (?) between Duke and North Carolina?
I might have the year wrong but I am sure it was around '78.
Isn't it true that VMS didn't become a reality until 1978 with the
introduction of the VAX?

If true on both counts, then how could VMSNET exist if the basis
for it (VMS) did not exist earlier?

Of course I found logic rarely works here anyway! :-)

-- 
scott barman
{gatech, emory}!nastar!scott