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From: joel@gould9.UUCP (Joel West)
Newsgroups: net.news.group,net.news.adm,net.micro.atari,net.micro.cbm,net.micro.amiga
Subject: Re: New Group Needed
Message-ID: <189@gould9.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 23-Nov-85 12:39:40 EST
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Posted: Sat Nov 23 12:39:40 1985
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Summary: ok the way it is

"What's in a name?  A rose by any other name would still smell as sweet."
		Romeo and Juliet, by William Shakespeare

In article <622@tekigm.UUCP>, aegroup@tekigm.UUCP (Dennis Ward) writes:
> Several new groups are needed and several old groups should be renamed:
> 
> net.micro.cbm   should be net.micro.cbm8  for Commodore 8 bit machines
> net.micro.amiga should be net.micro.cbm16 for Commodore 16 bit machines
> net.micro.atari should be split into
> 			  net.micro.atari8 for Atari 8 bit machines
> 			  net.micro.atari16 for Atari 16 bit machines
> 
> Similarly if either Commodore or Atari come out with 32 bit machines, then new
> subgroups could be established.  

As I understand it, the 32-bit Atari will also be an "ST", and that it 
will have a similar architecture to the 16-bit Atari.  (For example,
you can bet damn well that a 32-bit 386-based IBM pc will be MS-DOS
based.)  If the new commodore is not an Amiga, no harm is done.

The current system works just fine.  (People used net.micro.mac to talk
about the Lisa, and nobody complained.)  Because enough other things
are broken, there should be a bias for status quo barring some great
overriding requirement.
-- 
	Joel West	 	(619) 457-9681
	CACI, Inc. Federal, 3344 N. Torrey Pines Ct., La Jolla, CA  92037
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