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From: edhall@rand.org (Ed Hall)
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Subject: Re: CALL FOR DISCUSSION -- comp.sys.ibm.pc.tech
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Date: 19 Dec 89 02:17:27 GMT
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In article <8912150301.AA22354@uunet.uu.net> Peter da Silva <peter%ficc@uunet.UU.NET> writes:
>I think it's long past time for a ".tech" group for the IBM-PC. The need
>is great enough that alt.msdos.programmer has been created, but as an alt
>group it has restricted distribution, and many people just don't know
>about it.

If you want to create a technical group for MSDOS hackers, call it
comp.os.msdos.  There are lots of technical issues concerning
the IBM PC and decendents which have nothing to do with MSDOS.
These include hardware and low-level programming.  In fact, I
would like to see a group such as comp.sys.ibm.pc.tech explicitly
exclude OS issues (outside of those sorts of questions which arise in
the implementation of an OS).

		-Ed Hall
		edhall@rand.org