Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!aplcen!samsung!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!newstop!texsun!texbell!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: news.groups Subject: Re: CALL FOR DISCUSSION -- comp.sys.ibm.pc.tech Message-ID: <7394@ficc.uu.net> Date: 21 Dec 89 22:19:01 GMT References: <8912150301.AA22354@uunet.uu.net> <1989Dec19.021727.667@rand.org> <7364@ficc.uu.net> <7069@unix.SRI.COM> Reply-To: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 20 In article <7069@unix.SRI.COM> jeuck@unix.sri.com (Philip Jeuck) writes: > Maybe I'm a little slow, but I don't understand what the content of > this proposed group will be. Technical issues concering the IBM-PC. Along the lines of "how do you talk to the serial port from Turbo-Algol-3.0" or "How do I modify the Frobozz-6 motherboard to add 9 Femtosecond static RAM" rather than "Has anyone beaten the fourth level of PC-Larn version 8" or "Which spreadsheet is most useful for a dental office". > it has way too high of volume but I would like to > know which part your proposing to break out. Depends on the group that gets created. But mainly the sort of hard-line techy stuff that tends to leak into comp.lang.c and comp.arch. -- `-_-' Peter da Silva. +1 713 274 5180. . 'U` Also or . "It was just dumb luck that Unix managed to break through the Stupidity Barrier and become popular in spite of its inherent elegance." -- gavin@krypton.sgi.com