Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!lavaca.uh.edu!uhnix1!sugar!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: news.groups Subject: Re: Isn't it time for comp.sys.ibm.pc.tech? Message-ID: <7086@ficc.uu.net> Date: 22 Nov 89 18:44:17 GMT References: <586@gmuvax2.gmu.edu> <7064@ficc.uu.net> <603@gmuvax2.gmu.edu> Reply-To: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) Organization: Xenix Support, FICC 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 was vaguely aware of this group. But it didn't seem to have made much difference to the number of "How do you use a COM port in MS-DOS" type questions in comp.lang.c (the answer, BTW, is "you don't: you write a driver")... Thus I think it would probably help to have a mainstream group for this purpose as well. Perhaps a split like comp.sys.mac.{programmer,hardware} would even be in order... -- `-_-' Peter da Silva . 'U` -------------- +1 713 274 5180. "The basic notion underlying USENET is the flame." -- Chuq Von Rospach, chuq@Apple.COM