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From: rickc@pogo.GPID.TEK.COM (Rick Clements)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: Re: comp.binaries.cbm and comp.sources.cbm (and maybe alt.whatever)
Summary: Several net people don't line 8 bit machines
Message-ID: <5689@pogo.GPID.TEK.COM>
Date: 18 Jul 88 18:16:40 GMT
References: <7377@j.cc.purdue.edu> <4855@hoptoad.uucp> <1085@umbc3.UMD.EDU>
Reply-To: rickc@pogo.GPID.TEK.COM (Rick Clements)
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Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Wilsonville,  OR.
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In article <1085@umbc3.UMD.EDU> pete@umbc3.UMD.EDU (Pete Hsi (C)) writes:
>Let me say this as nice as possible: John, your posting strikes me as elitist
>and selfish.  Just because you do not find a newsgroup personally useful
>doesn't mean you have to be against it. Remember, you are not the sole user of
>this net.

I have noticed dislike of eight bit machines on the net.  This doesn't apply
just to the C64/C128.  For example, the following discussion on C (paraphrased
because I no longer have the text):

... type int should be used because it is the natural size of the machine.
... type int is at least 16 bits wide.

I was begining to belive I was the only person who didn't believe bigger is,
by defenition, better.