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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!wupost!gumby!destroyer!ubc-cs!fornax!bremner
From: bremner@cs.sfu.ca (David Bremner)
Subject: Re: 386bsd -- The New Newsgroup <Summary>
Message-ID: <1992Sep12.232207.25719@cs.sfu.ca>
Reply-To: bremner@cs.sfu.ca (David Bremner)
Organization: CSS, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
References: <22376@venera.isi.edu> <1992Sep12.205451.15726@terminator.cc.umich.edu>
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 23:22:07 GMT
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In article <1992Sep12.205451.15726@terminator.cc.umich.edu> pauls@umich.edu writes:
>
>Did I fail to represent anyone who has posted in this thread so far?
>
>I would like to get a feel for what sort of support each of these  
>positions has.  Please either follow up or email me.

My own proposal was to move comp.unix.bsd to comp.os.bsd; unless USL wins, 
in which case we are all in deep doo-doo.

Then subgroups of comp.os.bsd could be created for 386bsd and other bsd
based systems.  My attachment to a unified bsd hierarchy does not seem 
to be shared by the other posters in the thread, or by Lynne Jolitz.

I'm not sure whether or not two separate newsgroups are needed for bsd386 
and 386/bsd.  I realize there are political considerations here, but 
comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit ( or whatever it is called ) serves about 
6 major flavours of SYS V based unix on intel processors.

In a soundbite

	comp.os.bsd
	comp.os.bsd.pc-clone

Which would cover bsd386, 386/bsd, mach-386, BNRSS-386, (the last two
only in regard to their BSD nature, not their mach nature)

Cheers,

David

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bremner@cs.sfu.ca 				          ubc-cs!fornax!bremner