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From: ruhtra@turing.toronto.edu (Arthur Tateishi)
Subject: Re: RFD comp.sys.handelds split
Message-ID: <1991May21.012731.26644@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu>
Organization: CSRI, University of Toronto
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Date: 21 May 91 05:27:31 GMT
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In article <7567@rex.cs.tulane.edu> mandel@vax.anes.tulane.edu writes:
>I would appreciate it if some other people would make
>their opinions known.

Well, I'm generally in support of this palmtops/handhelds or
palmtops/handhelds split but I still feel that the hp48 can
sustain its own newsgroup. I'm not happy with the idea of splitting 
"en masse" to programmers/organizers/calcs/rpl/rpn/infix/palmtops/msdos/ 
........  because I think cross posting will be a problem, archiving
will become very difficult, and discussions will be hard to follow.

For instance, the HP48 has so much versatility that many of us use it
as a calendar, appointment, todo, alarms, games, stats, terminal, etc
machine. Oh yeah, we also use it as a calculator. It also seems that
most of us hp48'ers are interested in ALL of these aspects. Therefore,
causing the 48 people to spread among several groups is not a good
solution. We can live quite fine in one group.

This is why I supported the c.s.h.hp48[.d] split.
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Arthur Tateishi                 ruhtra@turing.utoronto.ca