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From: Larry Autry
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 18:57

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In article <93021.123116SRK106@psuvm.psu.edu> SRK106@psuvm.psu.edu (Senthil Ramas Kumar) writes:
>
>I very much agree with you that the term "x86", does not lend it nicely to
>suit the description that we are looking for.  Further, as a previous poster
>had pointed out its a little technical in nature, and it _could_ be obscure
>to people, especially those who are new to the area of interest.
>
>but, I somehow feel that just keeping "pc" instead of "ibm.pc" is too
>generic, and can be very confusing to people.
>
>Kumar
What about comp.sys.intel.*.  Is there something wrong with that?

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Larry Autry
Silicon Graphics, St. Louis
autry@sgi.com

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