On Tuesday 15 June 2004 21:52, William Donzelli wrote:
> > Maybe the list simply needs to take a firm non-Windows stance,
>
> I would like to see a non Windows, PeeCee, DOS, or Linux stance. All of
> these certainly are on topic for the list, but c'mon folks, there are
> eighty million forums for these four topics, and just a few for old
> computers.
While I mostly agree, we might want to make an exception for discussing
emulators of classic systems on such OSes (like running simh under linux
or Winderz). But as a general "Don't ask Windows questions here" rule I'd
tend to agree.
I think that's better than extending the 'oldness' limit, as there are some
machines (like DEC Alphas, IBM RS/6000s, Sun or SGI workstations, etc)
that I'd consider as valid for this list (within the age constraint) as
compared to, say, a Commodore 64 or Amiga 1000.
Pat
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