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From: jay@splut.UUCP (Jay Maynard)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix,news.admin
Subject: Re: time to make a new newsgroup, filk
Message-ID: <134@splut.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 10-Sep-87 02:10:51 EDT
Article-I.D.: splut.134
Posted: Thu Sep 10 02:10:51 1987
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Organization: Confederate Microsystems, League City, TX
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Summary: Actually, there WAS a vote.
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In article <1121@gilsys.UUCP>, mc68020@gilsys.UUCP (Thomas J Keller) writes:
)    I am not interested in uPort information, as I do not make the silly 
) mistake of operating on INTEL based pseudo-computers.

Then there are those of us who want tthe ability to run the mountain of PC
software... and, like it or not, there are 20 million of us out here.

) I have noted that
) >>50% of the articles on this newsgroup are uPort related.  I think it's
) wonderful that someone like uPort is creating an operating system with some
) usefulness for your pseudo-computers, but *I DON'T WANT TO READ ABOUT IT*!
) 
)    I therefore formally propose the formation of comp.unix.uPort, to provide
) a forum for the obviously significant audience interested in that topic.  
) Given the traffic patterns in comp.unix.xenix for the past few months, I 
) see no reason to take a vote.  It seems to me that the group ought simply
) to be formed.  In fact, if someone else HASN'T formed it by Sept. 8, I will
) take the responsibility for so doing.

I recall a couple of weeks ago, a discussion in news.groups on this very
subject. I don't know why the group hasn't been created yet, though.


)    (seriously, I should apologize for my processor bigottry, and I do (sort
)     of).  But the uPort people *DO* need their own forum, now.)

Amen!

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