Path: utzoo!mnetor!tmsoft!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!src.honeywell.com!msi.umn.edu!noc.MR.NET!nic.stolaf.edu!uafhp!mamos From: mamos@uafhp.uark.edu (Mark _E_ Amos) Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds Subject: Re: Proposal for new subgroup Message-ID: Date: 13 Feb 91 23:43:23 GMT References: <6118@rex.cs.tulane.edu> Sender: news@acc.stolaf.edu Organization: University of Arkansas, Fayetteville Lines: 33 mandel@vax.anes.tulane.edu (Jeff E Mandel MD MS) writes: >It sounds like there is at least some interest in splitting off the HP >community into a separate group. Does anyone have any compelling reason why >this should not be done? If not, I will put together the proposal for the vote (references to wanton hedonism deleted :-)) I would say a spinoff group is inevitable, the question remains as to HOW/WHAT kind of spinoff. The best idea I have heard to date is the .hack someone mentioned (Rich, I think it was) to have a generic .handhelds for general discussion and the .hack as programs/bugs/technical stuff.. Then the question arises of what to do if other types of machines other than the HP-48 get a following of hacks. Well, we could 'if' ourselves to death on this one, but the idea of a tech/programming spinoff appeals to me more than a strictly HP-48/28 group, although I am interested in the 48 (I have one) and in the hacking part (I do so myself) I also see Rich's point for those who have 48's but do not necessarily want to read the tech stuff to get the discussion. Further, what about the issue of later models (68SX?)....? Would you believe a coupla spinoffs? comp.sources.handhelds? comp.sources.handhelds.d? Jsut a suggestion, but the more I think about it the more it makes me cringe... Too many ifs for me. -- ============================================================================== Mark _E_ Amos | University of Arkansas Computer Science Engineering mamos@uafhp.uark.edu | mea1@engr.uark.edu | (emphasise the Computer Engineering please) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "Man's mind, when stretched to a new idea, never goes back to its original dimension." -Oliver Wendell Holmes ==============================================================================