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From: filbo@gorn.santa-cruz.ca.us (Bela Lubkin)
Newsgroups: news.groups
Subject: Re: Call for discussion: Amiga hardware group
Message-ID: <114.filbo@gorn.santa-cruz.ca.us>
Date: 21 Dec 89 19:27:53 GMT
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In article <108.filbo@gorn.santa-cruz.ca.us> I (Bela) write:
>both 'art' and 'games' could be subsumed ('recreation' comes close but
>ignores the large percentage of Amiga artists that are doing commercial
>work), that group might also be worth considering.

In article <565@sagpd1.UUCP> Monty Saine writes:
>    How about something like comp.sys.amiga.creative since the Amiga is
>    the computer for the creative mind. Anything along this line would
>    help CBM's advertising and that helps us all.

That is a decent name.  It does not address games terribly well, but I
can see arguments for and against combining them anyway.  Certainly
those who are doing serious art would probably not appreciate being
lumped with the games...

I continue to believe that splitting off games and art should be done
later, after the effects of splitting off hardware (assuming that
happens) are understood.

[Bela:]
>Given a hardware group, what name is appropriate?  There are really only
>two choices here: comp.sys.amiga.hardware or comp.sys.amiga.hw.  I could

[Monty:]
>    There is another choice comp.sys.amiga.tech.hardware since hardware
>    is really a technical area is it not ???

Well, yes and no.  "What is the best color printer?" is not a terribly
technical question.

Someone else asked [is this to be a technical or non-technical hardware
group].  I say: both.  It is extremely difficult to separate the
discussion on these lines.  "I am designing a 32-bit memory board to
work with my kludged 68030 board and I am having the following problem
with the DTACK line" is a technical subject for just about anyone.  YOU
probably think that "Will the HardFrame work with a CDC Wren V 320MB
drive?" is NOT a technical subject, but it certainly is to someone who
is not knowledgable about hardware.  So labeling a group ".tech"
doesn't separate things all that well.

The total traffic of Amiga hardware discussion is low enough (at least
compared to c.s.a itself) that lumping together technical and
non-technical hardware discussion ought to be workable.  If not -- and
that will only become apparent after a few weeks or months -- a motion
could be made to create a .tech or .design group specifically
addressing design issues.

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