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- From: wlsmith@valve.heart.rri.uwo.ca (Wayne Smith)
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- Subject: Re: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
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- Date: 22 Jan 93 03:00:37 GMT
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- In article <1jmrn2INN9ck@fido.asd.sgi.com> autry@sgi.com (Larry Autry) writes:
- >>I very much agree with you that the term "x86", does not lend it nicely to
- >>suit the description that we are looking for. Further, as a previous poster
- >>had pointed out its a little technical in nature, and it _could_ be obscure
- >>to people, especially those who are new to the area of interest.
- >>
- >>but, I somehow feel that just keeping "pc" instead of "ibm.pc" is too
- >>generic, and can be very confusing to people.
-
- Well, going back to the start of the 8088 line, I believe the grandfather
- computer of this group was the first micro-computer to actually be called
- a "personal computer", or PC for short. I doubt that there would be any
- confusion in using "PC" to identify with computers based on the x86.
- I mean, are we really afraid that "PC" will be confused with computers
- based on the 6502, 8080, 680xx, etc?
-
-
- >What about comp.sys.intel.*. Is there something wrong with that?
-
- Well, seeing that Intel's anal-retentive licencing agreements (starting
- with the 80386) has led to a handfull of clone 386's and 486's, I
- hardly think that .intel would be correct. Using .ibm-pc would be
- more appropriate than .intel, IMHO.
-
- We have to think of the common denominator here. PC? x86? MS-DOS? DOS?
- (After all, what other micro-computer's operating system is known simply
- as "DOS"?)
-
- I know, we also have various versions of UNIX and OS/2, so maybe we
- can't use MS-DOS or DOS.
-
- There doesn't seem to be much discussion on this topic. All the better
- I guess. Too many cooks spoil the ...(etc)
-