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- From: bgrubb@dante.nmsu.edu (GRUBB)
- Subject: Re: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.150446.10985@nmsu.edu>
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- Organization: New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 15:04:46 GMT
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- bobk@gibdo.engr.washington.edu (Bob) writes:
- >SRK106@psuvm.psu.edu (Senthil Ramas Kumar) writes:
- >> but, I somehow feel that just keeping "pc" instead of "ibm.pc" is too
- >> generic, and can be very confusing to people.
-
- > I don't think the term "pc" is too confusing. Everyone has been using
- > that term for years to refer to DOS/Intel based systems. IBM has very
- > little to do with it anymore. The term "pc" is probably less confusing
- > to most people than any other term.
- I disagree. A resent article in BYTE said 'in choosing a PC (Mac or IBM)
- one must be sure of what is expected of the machine.' Also the PowerPC is
- a PC but it neither a DOS or an intel machine {Its a Mac/IBM UNIX/Motorola
- machine.} The PowerPC {IBM's may be out THIS year} will produced by each
- company to fit the old expandsions. I.e the IBM 601 will likely have support
- for HD interfaces like IDE and ESDI and BUS interfaces like ISA, MCA, EISA,
- VESA, and PCI and SCSI-1 while the Apple 601 will support PDS, NuBUS, SCSI-1,
- and SCSI-2 conections. The term PC has brodened over the years to the point
- it is NO LONGER a synimem(sp) for IBM-PC.
- What I would like to see:
- comp.sys.ibm.pc.advocacy-equivalent of comp.sys.mac.advocacy
- comp.sys.ibm.pc.bus-discuse bus expandsions
- comp.sys.ibm.pc.drives
- comp.sys.ibm.pc.powerpc
- comp.sys.ibm.pc.sound
- comp.sys.ibm.pc.video
- comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
-