Re: MISC personal computers

[Jaap van Ganswijk <ganswijk@xxxxxxxxx>]

At 16:42 19990207 -0500, dirnfir wrote:
>From: vic plichota <atsvap@cgo.wave.ca>
>To: dirnfir <dirnfir@usa.net>; MISC list <MISC@pisa.rockefeller.edu>
>Sent: Sunday, February 07, 1999 11:00 AM
>Subject: Re: MISC personal computers
>
>>However, there is a growing backlash of computing *professionals* who
>>are sick + tired of the lies and confusion surrounding MicroSoft's
>>products, and would just love a cheap alternative platform that they
>>could actually control.
>
>Yes... I agree.  The BeOS is selling, Corel's Netwinder is selling.  I think
>there is a *very* big market for MISC in the "computer geek" population.  Of
>course, it *would* have to be fully Open Source.  A debugger in which you
>can reflectively view the source code would also help here.
>
>BTW, does anyone know what happened to the Homebuilt-L mailing list?

It was stopped again quite soon for some silly reason in favor of the
newsgroup.

Newsgroup people don't like mailing lists and vice-versa. Converting
a newsgroup to a mailing list or vice-versa is very difficult. It's better
to see them as different undertakings and let them lead independent
lives, I think. The newsgroup 'suffered' too much from PC-assembler
people, but the mailing list started to 'suffer' the same problem almost
from the start, so the newsgroup people went back to their newsgroup
again.

Feel free to discuss PC building issues on my Chipdir-L mailing list
(about 500 people, see below) and when the amount of emails about
this subject gets 'unbearable' we can split the list.


Greetings,
Jaap

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