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- From: elle@kimbark.uchicago.edu (Ellen Keyne Seebacher)
- Subject: Re: RFD: alt.apple.newton
- Message-ID: <1992Jul22.135453.27550@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Keywords: Newton
- Sender: news@uchinews.uchicago.edu (News System)
- Reply-To: elle@midway.uchicago.edu
- Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations
- References: <cline.711794712@ebony.cs.scarolina.edu>
- Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 13:54:53 GMT
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- cline@cs.scarolina.edu (Ernest Cline) writes:
- >There has been a lot of discussion of late about Newton the pen based PDA
- >that Apple will be introducing soon. Yet since this is not a Macintosh, and
- >will not be using the MacOS it really doesn't seem to belong in
- >comp.sys.mac.misc. Therefore, I propose the group alt.apple.newton ...
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- No: alt.os.newton or alt.sys.newton, please.
-
- Make it clear that you're talking about a computing device; a name
- like "alt.apple.newton" will get you smart remarks about gravity,
- apple trees, and just what ol' Isaac was _doing_ in that orchard --
- and creates an unnecessary "alt.apple.*" hierarchy to boot.
-
- --
- Ellen Keyne Seebacher elle@midway.uchicago.edu
-