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- From: gary@sci34hub.sci.com (Gary Heston)
- Subject: Re: RFD: comp.os.nt
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.151811.1564@sci34hub.sci.com>
- Reply-To: gary@sci34hub.sci.com (Gary Heston)
- Organization: SCI Systems, Inc., Huntsville, Al.
- References: <1jvvqbINNeqn@rodan.UU.NET> <CKD.93Jan25105251@loiosh.eff.org>
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 15:18:11 GMT
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- In article <CKD.93Jan25105251@loiosh.eff.org> ckd@eff.org (Christopher Davis) writes:
- >GD> == George Dolbier <georged@sequent.com>
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- > GD> First problem: the name. comp.os.nt is short and to the point,
- > GD> but maybe too short. comp.os.windows-nt is too long [...]
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- >By what measurement?
-
- The string "windows-nt" is nine characters, and therefore won't fit into
- a DOS directory name. However, the overwhelming majority of Usenet sites
- use real operating systems, so this isn't a problem.
-
- And comp.os.nt is a bad name because it's not clear. c.o.windows-nt is
- clear, and will work. (No idea about Windows NT itself.... :-) )
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