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From: Daniel M Silevitch
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 12:48

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In article <1jmrn2INN9ck@fido.asd.sgi.com>, autry@sgi.com (Larry Autry) writes:
|> 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?
|> 
|> --
|> Larry Autry
|> Silicon Graphics, St. Louis
|> autry@sgi.com 

What about pc clones using AMD 386 and 486 processors? ibm.pc, or perhaps
ibm.pc-clone is better.

Daniel Silevitch                            dmsilev@athena.mit.edu
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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