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From: chuqui@nsc.UUCP (Chuq Von Rospach)
Newsgroups: net.news.group
Subject: Re: New group proposal: net.micro.{flame,compet,bench,argue,...}
Message-ID: <2884@nsc.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 21-Jun-85 22:39:55 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jun 21 22:39:55 1985
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References: <963@bnl44.UUCP> <337@gatech.CSNET>
Reply-To: chuqui@nsc.UUCP (Chuq Von Rospach)
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In article <337@gatech.CSNET> spaf@gatech.UUCP (Gene Spafford) writes:
>>This has been talked about in net.micro.68k (and about 5 other groups where
>>the discussion never really belonged in the first place), but I haven't seen
>>anything in net.news.group.  A new group is really needed to contain the
>>debates over the merits and flaws of various microcomputer CPUs.  
>
>Why can't "net.arch" or "net.micro" be used for this?  Those groups
>would seem to be appropriate to what you are discussing....

net.arch tends towards future thinking and theoretical discussions rather
than everyday comparisons between existing machines. Net.micro is gatewayed
to the ARPA, and already has more than enough volume. Rather than a
flame oriented group, I think it probably IS time to have a place to
compare benchmarks, especially now that there are benchmarking systems
(Aim, and Byte, for example) that are becoming accepted as standards. I'd
like to see net.micro.bench, or some such, if we can figure out how to keep
people from crossposting anyway...
-- 
:From the misfiring synapses of:                  Chuq Von Rospach
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