Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!uwvax!astroatc!nicmad!madnix!rat
From: rat@madnix.UUCP (David Douthitt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: New Groups
Message-ID: <421@madnix.UUCP>
Date: 22 Jan 89 21:33:52 GMT
References: <8090009@hpsemc.HP.COM>
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From article <8090009@hpsemc.HP.COM>, by gph@hpsemc.HP.COM (Paul Houtz):

| From reading this group, you would think it's the only one that
| exists for the IBM PC.
| 
|   My suggestion is that we split it into several groups:
| 
|      1.  comp.sys.ibmpc.turboc
|      2.  comp.sys.ibmpc.os2
|      3.  comp.sys.ibmpc.turbopascal
|      4.  comp.sys.ibmpc.applications
|      5.  comp.sys.ibmpc.hardwarwe
|      6.  comp.sys.ibmpc.clones
| 
|   I don't know.  Maybe these groups stink.  Any other suggestions?

I would take issue with comp.sys.ibmpc.turbopascal and possibly
comp.sys.ibmpc.turboc.  For one thing, let me remind you and the rest
of you IBM Turbo Pascal people that there IS a CP/M based Turbo Pascal
out there.  Also, wouldn't comp.sys.ibmpc.turboc be covered by
comp.lang.c; comp.sys.ibmpc.turbopascal, by comp.lang.pascal; and
comp.sys.ibmpc.os2, by comp.os.os2 (is there such a bird?).

Suggestions 4 through 6 sound good to me.

   -- david

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