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Article #92Re: CFD: VMSNET Alpha newsgroup
From: Pat Rankin
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 03:38
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 03:38
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> vmsnet.alphaAXP.whatever
Newsgroup names are not case sensitive, so please don't present ones
which rely on that to convey something. Anyway I thought that "AXP"
superceded the development name "Alpha", so "alphaaxp" is not only ugly
but redundant. Use a hyphen if you want to tack two things together.
The login banner on an Alpha running VMS says "OpenVMS AXP (tm)"
(where VAX/VMS still says "VAX/VMS", without the extra marketeers' nonsense)
and there's no mention of "Alpha" to be seen. Personally I prefer "Alpha/VMS"
and "VAX/VMS" and hope to relegate "OpenVMS" to the circular file where
it belongs.
An Alpha porting group would be useful, but VMS is still VMS and
there's no need for separate groups for regular software. I can't imagine
why someone would propose an OSF/1 or WindowsNT group in the vmsnet
hierarchy though. Haven't we been through this several times before?
Pat Rankin, rankin@eql.caltech.edu
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