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From: wiml@milton.u.washington.edu (William Lewis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: What's the diff between c.s.i.p.m and c.o.m.m?
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Date: 4 Aug 90 04:43:24 GMT
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In article <1091@ashton.UUCP> tomr@ashton.UUCP (Tom Rombouts) writes:
>Pardon my ignorance and the bandwidth, but what is the difference
>between comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc and comp.os.msdos.misc?  Wouldn't
>only having comp.os.msdos.misc be more consistant with the recent
>creation of the "comp.os.msods" groups?  Or am I missing something?

  Well, "comp.os.msdos.misc" is about the OS, MS[PC, whatever]-DOS;
comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc is about the system, the IBM PC and compatibles.
A discussion on how to change the timer interrupt rate may not be
at home on csimm, and a discussion detailing the uses of undocumented
interrupt eleventeen (hex) might not belong on csipm...

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