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From: bson@rice-chex.ai.mit.edu (Jan Brittenson)
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Subject: Re: RFD:  comp.sys.handhelds.hp48 and comp.sources.hp48 moderated
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Date: 8 May 91 05:41:39 GMT
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In a posting of [8 May 91 02:35:38 GMT]
   ruhtra@turing.toronto.edu (Arthur Tateishi) writes:

 > From the initial indications, the HP95 has the potential of matching
 > or exceeding HP48 volume.

   Hardly. Perhaps for a few weeks, then the discussion will likely
fade away. You don't buy MS-DOS machines to hack on, but to run
applications you buy over the counter. The discussion concerning those
applications belongs somewhere else. I refuse to read MS-DOS garbage
in an HP48 group. The machine is entirely without hack value. On the
other hand, I may be wrong, perhaps lots lots of news readers will
cough up $600 for an MS-DOS computer. Unlikely, if you ask me, but
still possible. Let it prove itself over a period of about a year,
like the HP-48 has.

   The amount of HP-48 postings is likely to continue to increase,
especially as HP are replacing the 28S with the 48S.


 > Therefore, you may want to make provisions for individual machines a
 > la c.s.h.hp.hp48 and c.s.h.hp.hp95. However, these are getting long.
 > This should also make things better for archive sites.

   If HP-95 users want a newsgroup, let them come up with a proposal.
The HP-95 bears no relationship with the HP-48. The HP-95 and HP-48
are two entirely different appearances on the market. The HP-48's
value lies in the software, and will therefore be around another 5-10
years at least - or does anyone believe that HP is going to start
developing its replacement before then - unlikely. The HP-95's
marketable characteristic is its hardware. It runs the same MS-DOS as
every other clone. It will become obsolete when the competiting clones
become obsolete.


 > I'm not as convinced as you that devoting a newsgroup to one model of
 > one manufacturer is always bad. msdos groups encompass a vast number
 > of different models, etc but they are basically the same machine.

   And that's where the HP-95 stuff belongs. As far from the HP-48
discussions as you can possibly get.


						-- Jan Brittenson
						   bson@ai.mit.edu