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From: streeter@theory.lcs.mit.edu (Kenneth B Streeter)
Subject: Re: RFD comp.sys.handelds split
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Date: Fri, 24 May 91 01:41:35 GMT
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In article <1991May21.195406.28119@leland.Stanford.EDU> mcgrant@elaine10.Stanford.EDU (Michael Grant) writes:
>Look, personally I DON'T see a consensus here.

About time somebody admitted this.  Almost everybody else seems to be
saying that they see a consensus on different things...

>So here's the story: ... comp.sys.handhelds.hp48...
> ... comp.sys.palmtops...
> ... What will be left of comp.sys.handhelds? ... not ... much, 
> but at least the people that DO use it won't have to wade
>through all of the whining about newsgroup changes...

Yay!  A proposal that create the three necessary groups:  a place for
the HP48 to not drown out miscellaneous calculators, a place for the
growing "palmtop" discussion (MSDOS compatible handhelds) and the
other calculators that currently have only a feeble discussion!



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