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From: mack@inco.UUCP (Dave Mack)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix,comp.unix.microport,news.groups
Subject: Re: Proposal -- comp.unix.i386
Message-ID: <4379@inco.UUCP>
Date: 25 Jan 89 17:01:26 GMT
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Reply-To: mack@inco.UUCP (Dave Mack)
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In article <2850@ficc.uu.net> peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes:
>No fancy stuff, this time. 90% of the stuff in comp.unix.xenix these days
>seems to be related to System V/386 and relatives. Since even SCO is going
>to be dropping the Xenix name from this offering, I'd like to propose that
>a new group be created to suck up the 386 chatter.
>
>No fancy stuff. No old groups going away. comp.unix.xenix and .microport
>are perfectly good for dealing with the two main branches of 286 unix, and
>the Tandy 6000 people. Just a new comp.unix.i386.

Great! I've been looking for an unmoderated forum where Sun386i users
can discuss their problems, and talk about how glad they are that
there's finally a 386 machine running BSD.

Also, I'm sure the folks with the new Sequent machines would have a
few comments to throw in from time to time, cross-posted to comp.sys.sequent,
naturally.

Care to give that name a little more thought, Peter?

>Voting starts February 1st, and continues to March 2nd. Votes received before
>and after this period will be ignored. I'm not going to pay any attention
>to naming or hierarchy suggestions unless there seems to be a consensus that
>sysv386 or sysv.386 or whatever is unequivocally superior.
>
>This one is gonna be by the book.

Right. So we're going to have the 30-day discussion period between now
and Feb. 1, is that it? Which book was that?

Sarcasm aside, unless you want this group to be a forum for discussion
of *all* 386-based Unix machines, I'd suggest finding some other name.
If you don't mind the Roadrunner folks dropping in, I retract the
suggestion and would welcome the group.

May Klortho Bless and Protect You,
Dave Mack