Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!samsung!uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen From: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr) Newsgroups: news.groups Subject: Re: Isn't it time for comp.sys.ibm.pc.tech? Message-ID: <1769@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> Date: 22 Nov 89 16:34:48 GMT References: <586@gmuvax2.gmu.edu> <7064@ficc.uu.net> <603@gmuvax2.gmu.edu> Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen) Organization: GE Corp R&D Center, Schenectady NY Lines: 16 In article <603@gmuvax2.gmu.edu> smasters@gmuvax2.UUCP (Shawn Masters) writes: | I thought that was what alt.msdos.programmers was for. I know that I've | answered the same questions there about IBM PC C compilers as often | appear here. Of course who would think the equivalent of a technical | help news group would fall under alt.? If the group can keep it's technical image there might be a consensus about moving it. I certainly would support a REASONABLE split of c.s.i.p into some small set of groups like applications, utilities, hardware, and techniques. There are topics which would be appropriate to cross post, but that's not a massive problem. -- bill davidsen (davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM -or- uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen) "The world is filled with fools. They blindly follow their so-called 'reason' in the face of the church and common sense. Any fool can see that the world is flat!" - anon