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From: mandel@vax.anes.tulane.edu (Jeff E Mandel MD MS)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: ONE WEEK TO CALL FOR VOTE
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Date: 4 Mar 91 15:47:07 GMT
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I will be issuing the call for vote in one week. As it stands now, it seems
that the compelling arguments I have heard to date indicate that the new group
should be a subgroup of .handhelds, and should be devoted primarily to
handhelds made by HP and which share the basic architecture of the 28/48 (i.e.,
not the Jaguar). Basically, there are two philosophies: Make it as narrow as
possible, e.g. .hp48sx, and make it as wide as possible, e.g. .hpcalcs. Since
it seems likely that all handheld DOS machines will be sufficiently similar to
be together somewhere, either in this heirarchy (comp.sys.handhelds.dos) or
elsewhere (comp.sys.laptops.handhelds??), I see little reason to imply that all
HP handhelds are to be found in the new group, thus, I am withdrawing the
comp.sys.handhelds.hp selection. Thus, I am most interested in the views of
those individuals who I see as most affected by the choice - those HP users who
use 28s and other non-48 systems. Do you want to stay in the .handhelds group
or do you want to go to the new group? Please let me know. I already have
plenty of opinions from the 48 community, and the casio/sharp/poquet/psion
community only seems to care about the 48s being in the new group. Please try
to restrict your comments to this question. I try to respond to all views, but
I feel it is important that the discussion process move towards resolution,
rather than just permitting everyone to catharse.

Jeff E Mandel MD MS
Asst Professor of Anesthesiology
Tulane Unversity School of Medicine
New Orleans, LA