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Re: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware

#19349
From: michele
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 18:20
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Since the object here is segmenting the list, I would like to suggest
that there be a SEPARATE set of groups for ISA, EISA, and VESA local_bus
SPECIFIC questions/comments, within the naming structure.  Questions about
ATI's local_bus cards do not interest those without local_bus.  And EISA-
specific (or MCA-specific) questions interest almost no one -- why wade
through them?

Perhaps -- 

     comp.sys.pc.video
     comp.sys.pc.localbus.video  <--for video card Q/info
      .
      .
     comp.sys.pc.controllers
     comp.sys.pc.localbus.controllers
      .
      .
 
As for the pc/intel/x86 debate, my first microcomputer was an 8080,
and I've worked with machines containing dec, intel, hp and other 
microprocessors -- all of them personal computers, in my view --
but the term 'pc' HAS become identified with 'IBM PC and compatibles,'
so I don't object to using 'pc' in the newsgroup name.  Pentium is
still in the x86 family, but there are non-IBM-compatible x86 machines
(anybody remember the Victor 9000?) and there are non-x86 processors
in the 'intel' line, such as the i860.

Lets focus on how to 'divide' the newsgroup on hardware.  Please?
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Subject: Re: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
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Keywords: pc, local bus, VESA
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