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From: hugo@spica.ucsc.edu (Hugo Calendar)
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Subject: Re: Creating a newsgroup for the 6000-series ?
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Date: 23 Aug 90 22:39:11 GMT
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In article <2085@krafla.rhi.hi.is> frisk@rhi.hi.is (Fridrik Skulason) writes:
>    .... what should the group be called ?  Some possibilities are :
>
>              comp.sys.ibm.6000
>              comp.sys.ibm.r6000
>              comp.sys.ibm.s6000
>              comp.sys.ibm.rs6000      
>              comp.sys.ibm.risc6000
>              comp.sys.ibm.rios
>
>         as some people are VERY unhappy about .r6000 or .rs6000, naming

What's wrong with .rs6000?  (ie. Why are some people unhappy about it?)

-Hugo

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