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From: dyer@spdcc.COM (Steve Dyer)
Newsgroups: news.groups,comp.unix.xenix,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: comp.unix.unix-at Intro and Charter (long)
Message-ID: <335@spdcc.COM>
Date: Thu, 22-Oct-87 08:47:15 EDT
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Posted: Thu Oct 22 08:47:15 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 24-Oct-87 21:46:34 EDT
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Organization: S.P. Dyer Computer Consulting, Cambridge MA
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Keywords: microport newsgroup created soon unix-at
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I think the name is horrible and will only lead to confusion, in the
light of the existing Xenix newsgroup.  "comp.unix.microport", while
perhaps a bit restrictive in that it doesn't seem to include ISC's and
Bell Tech's offering, at least has the advantage of being clearly
distinct from comp.unix.xenix.  Since Xenix IS UNIX, and it IS running
on the AT, I wager you'll gets as many cross postings there for Xenix
stuff as we see in comp.unix.xenix for Microport stuff right now.  Anyway,
since none of the 386 UNIXes presently or will ever run on something known
as an "AT", I also think it's unnecessarily confusing.  How about trying again
for a better name?
-- 
Steve Dyer
dyer@harvard.harvard.edu
dyer@spdcc.COM aka {ihnp4,harvard,linus,ima,bbn,m2c}!spdcc!dyer