Xref: utzoo news.groups:28193 comp.sys.handhelds:5658
Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!uwvax!astroatc!nicmad!madnix!zaphod
From: zaphod@madnix.UUCP (Ron Bean)
Newsgroups: news.groups,comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: Splitting comp.sys.handhelds
Keywords: handhelds hp msdos
Message-ID: <1746@madnix.UUCP>
Date: 26 Feb 91 02:12:03 GMT
Organization: MADNIX, operated by: ARP Software  Madison WI
Lines: 23


   I hate to say it, but I think what we really need is
comp.sys.handhelds.msdos, to cover poqet/portfolio/jaguar and
whatever else is in the works.
 
   The Wizard loses out, but look what happened to
comp.sys.laptops-- 99.9% of the discussion is about msdos
machines (or 386 clones running unix). If Atari's "Stacy" laptop
is discussed at all, it's undoubtedly under comp.sys.atari.st;
I've never seen it mentioned in comp.sys.laptops. Likewise for
the portable Macs. Machines like the Z88 and M100 fit in where
they can (most likely comp.sys.misc or a mailing list). I have no
reason to believe that handhelds will be any different within a
few years.
 
   Of course, as someone pointed out, we could make it
comp.sys.hp.handhelds and comp.sys.msdos.handhelds, and while
we're at it, comp.sys.msdos.laptops, but that affects three other
hierarchies that didn't ask for us to bother them.
 
==================
zaphod@madnix.UUCP (Ron Bean)
{harvard|rutgers|ucbvax}!uwvax!astroatc!nicmad!madnix!zaphod