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- From: Gavin Adams <gavin.adams@lso.mts.dec.com>
- Subject: Re: RFD: alt.apple.newton
- Message-ID: <1992Jul24.141236.8538@newshost.lanl.gov>
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- Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 14:12:36 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul23.192824.14109@husc3.harvard.edu> David Fry,
- fry@tara.harvard.edu writes:
- >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.
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- I also think comp.sys.pda is the best choice. I would also ammend the
- charter to discuss *all* PDA's--Apple's, GRiD's, whoevers.
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- >
- >David Fry fry@math.harvard.EDU
- >Division of Applied Sciences fry@huma1.bitnet
- >Harvard University ...!harvard!huma1!fry
- >Cambridge, MA 02138
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- --- Gavin
- Gone Fission. Visualize Whirled Peas!
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