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From: rmtodd@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu (Richard Michael Todd)
Newsgroups: news.groups
Subject: Re: comp.sys.ibm.pc.{tech,programmer,...}
Message-ID: <1990Jan1.215555.5361@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu>
Date: 1 Jan 90 21:55:55 GMT
References: <:EXZGDny2@ficc.uu.net> <369@sixhub.UUCP>
Reply-To: rmtodd@uokmax.UUCP (Richard Michael Todd)
Organization: Engineering Computer Network, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK
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In article <369@sixhub.UUCP> davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (bill davidsen) writes:
>  A group for the PC hardware platform would also be good for questions
>about disk drives, clock speeds, memory installation, etc. I guess the
>.tech is the best of the names you have suggested.
>  In spite of the .programmer being used in the alt area, it is not a
>really good name in terms of "what goes there." I would really like to
>see the term .hardware used, but there's no president for it.
  Obviously you're not a reader of the Mac groups :-).
Comp.sys.mac.hardware has been around for some time now, with discussions
on just that sort of thing (disk drives, memory installation, video cards)
for Mac computers.  There's also a comp.sys.mac.programmer group for 
discussing the gory details of programming the MacOS.  The PC newsreading
folk might do well to follow the precedent laid down by the Mac newsreading
folk...
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Richard Todd   rmtodd@chinet.chi.il.us  or  rmtodd@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu