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From: guy@rlgvax.UUCP (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: net.micro
Subject: Re: Separate newsgroup for Mac owners?
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Date: Thu, 26-Jul-84 02:02:58 EDT
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> 		I think the subgroups should be titled after for the
> processors that are prdominant. Going by this rule, you "mac" people
> already have net.micro.68k......
> 	Other groups should be net.micro.z80, net.micro.6502, net.micro.6809,
>  etc.,etc.,etc.
> 	This not only keeps interest up on your machine, but also keeps
> you informed to what is happening in related systems.

Unfortunately, it will also give you a lot of traffic on unrelated systems;
do the Apple II, the various 6502-based Commodore machines, and the various
6502-based Atari machines have that much in common?  What do a SUN workstation
and a Mac have in common other than the 68K and the bit-mapped display and
mouse?

The net.micro.<chip or chip family> groups mainly discuss the characteristics
of the chips and their families (and Goldilocks tried the 68881's porridge
and it was Just Right...), not the characteristics of computers based on those
chips.

	Guy Harris
	{seismo,ihnp4,allegra}!rlgvax!guy