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- From: markham@brtph600.bnr.ca (Andrew Markham P205)
- Subject: Re: RFD: alt.sys.newton(was RFD: alt.apple.newton
- Message-ID: <1992Jul24.125010.23109@brtph560.bnr.ca>
- Sender: news@brtph560.bnr.ca (Usenet News)
- Organization: Bell Northern Research Inc.
- References: <cline.711902753@willow.cs.scarolina.edu> <1992Jul23.192824.14109@husc3.harvard.edu> <1992Jul23.193950.14111@husc3.harvard.edu>
- Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 12:50:10 GMT
- Lines: 40
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- In article <1992Jul23.193950.14111@husc3.harvard.edu> fry@tara.harvard.edu (David Fry) writes:
- >In article <1992Jul23.192824.14109@husc3.harvard.edu> I write:
- >>In article <cline.711902753@willow.cs.scarolina.edu> cline@cs.scarolina.edu (Ernest Cline) writes:
- >>>alt.sys.newton would seem to be the best place to put such a group.
- >>>
- >>>The main reason I am in favor of an alt instead of a comp group is that it
- >>>is not certain that Newton will be the final name given to it, in fact it's
- >>>probably just an internal project name, much as the Saratoga I'm typing this
- >>>on was.
- >>
- >>Newton is *not* a code name, it is THE real name. The first PDA
- >>itself may not be named Newton, but Newton is the name of the
- >>technology and Newton is the name of the operating system. And these
- >>are the things most people are talking about.
- >>
- >>I comp.sys.pda is a good start, but every company is going to refer to
- >>their products as PDAs as well, or least the users will. I think
- >>comp.sys.newton is the most appropriate since that's the place to talk
- >>about the Newton operating system and the various Newton products from
- >>Apple, Sharp, Toshiba and (eventually) others.
- >
- >I also want to point out that Newton is an Apple-owned trademark and
- >PDA is not, so I think they're quite serious about calling it Newton
- >and I think other companies will use the term PDA for their own.
- >
- >David Fry fry@math.harvard.EDU
- >Division of Applied Sciences fry@huma1.bitnet
- >Harvard University ...!harvard!huma1!fry
- >Cambridge, MA 02138
-
- This sounds like a real good reason to start with comp.sys.pda and
- later (if demand deems it so) move to comp.sys.pda.general,
- comp.sys.pda.newton, comp.sys.pda.andy (this is the technology I will
- develop if I get the spare time ;^), etc...
-
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