Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!romp!auschs!d75!dundee.austin.ibm.com!au0005 From: au0005@dundee.austin.ibm.com Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix Subject: Re: Creating a newsgroup for the 6000-series ? Message-ID: <3294@d75.UUCP> Date: 24 Aug 90 16:39:24 GMT References: <6284@darkstar.ucsc.edu> <2085@krafla.rhi.hi.is> Sender: news@d75.UUCP Reply-To: au0005@dundee.austin.ibm.com () Organization: IBM Austin, TX Lines: 63 In article <6284@darkstar.ucsc.edu>, hugo@spica.ucsc.edu (Hugo Calendar) writes: > From: hugo@spica.ucsc.edu (Hugo Calendar) > Subject: Re: Creating a newsgroup for the 6000-series ? > Date: 23 Aug 90 22:39:11 GMT > > 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 I have it on extremely good authority ( as in I'm one of them ) that down under in Australia the letters RS refer to a similar expression to what Americans call 'BS', except the bull is replaced with a rat. It is a quite derogatory comment. I.E, saying that 'that machine is RS' means that it is quite probably unserviceable! Obviously not something that IBM would want to promote. Hence, the name is officially "Risc System/6000". The term rios is not used by IBM ( or shouldn't be! ). So, give us Aussies a break, please don't call the newsgroup the '*.*.ibm.rs6000', it makes a lot of us think of things that we shouldn't! It's also easy to mistake somebody for flaming the box when they are merely tring to type it's model number to the internet! > > Hugo Calendar ...!ucbvax!ucscc!spica!hugo CompEng/Math Undergraduate > 215 Weeks Avenue hugo@spica.ucsc.edu IBM RT AIX/Mach SysAdmin > Santa Cruz, CA 95060 hugo@ucscd.bitnet Mac II ThinkC programmer > USA (408) 425-5479 Best Regards, Peter May, IBM Australia. Sydney Support Center, 1-55 Rothschild Avenue, Rosebery. NSW. 2018. Australia. ***************************************************************************** AWDNet: au0005@dundee.austin.ibm.com, peter@price.austin.ibm.com Vnet : AU0005 at AUSVMQ, PETERMAY at SYDVM1. uucp : ...!cs.utexas.edu!ibmaus!auschs!price.austin.ibm.com!peter ...!cs.utexas.edu!ibmaus!auschs!dundee.austin.ibm.com!croc ... An Aussie lost in Austin ... #include /* My comments and opinions above are my own: I do not represent IBM here. */