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From: west@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP (Steve Westfall)
Newsgroups: net.news.group
Subject: Re: net.sources.pc?
Message-ID: <176@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 7-Feb-85 00:09:03 EST
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Jay Elvove (jay@umcp-cs.UUCP) recently wrote:

>. . . since the MAC people got their own .sources. group,
>is there sufficient interest in forming a similar newsgroup for
>PCs and MSDOS clones?  I'm sure there's an awful lot of public
>domain PC software out there that is just dying to be shared among
>us all.  Of course, what I'm hinting at is the creation of 
>net.sources.pc.

I heartily agree.  Just today I was wishing I could get my
hands on some C code for a decent full-screen editor for my
IBM PC.  I would recommend a name like net.sources.msdos or
such, since "pc" is becoming a broader term.

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Steve Westfall			     uucp:  ihnp4!gargoyle!sphinx!west
Staff Analyst			   bitnet:  staff.westfall%chip@UChicago.bitnet
U. of Chicago Computation Center