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From: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: Isn't this group supposed to be for Bnews?
Message-ID: <3307@crdos1.crd.ge.COM>
Date: 2 Apr 91 15:38:49 GMT
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Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.com (bill davidsen)
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In article <127221@uunet.UU.NET> kyle@uunet.UU.NET (Kyle Jones) writes:

| henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:
|  > The current interpretation is that it's for B-compatible news discussion.
|  > A couple of attempts to create a news.software.c have failed, mostly because
|  > it is, frankly, a dumb idea.  

  It has died because the authors of Cnews have fought against the
division, and flooded this groups with C_news patch reports,
administrative details, and other stuff which is of no interest to B
news users.

  Purely politics, any claim of technical merit is not supported by
analysis of the postings. By my count about 62% are purely dedicated to
one system or the other.
-- 
bill davidsen	(davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM -or- uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen)
        "Most of the VAX instructions are in microcode,
         but halt and no-op are in hardware for efficiency"