Creating a newsgroup for the 6000-series ?

[au0005 at dundee.austin.ibm.com]

In article <6284 at darkstar.ucsc.edu>, hugo at spica.ucsc.edu (Hugo Calendar)
writes:
> From: hugo at spica.ucsc.edu (Hugo Calendar)
> Subject: Re: Creating a newsgroup for the 6000-series ?
> Date: 23 Aug 90 22:39:11 GMT
> 
> In article <2085 at krafla.rhi.hi.is> frisk at rhi.hi.is (Fridrik Skulason) writes:
> >    .... what should the group be called ?  Some possibilities are :
> >
> >              comp.sys.ibm.6000
> >              comp.sys.ibm.r6000
> >              comp.sys.ibm.s6000
> >              comp.sys.ibm.rs6000      
> >              comp.sys.ibm.risc6000
> >              comp.sys.ibm.rios
> >
> >         as some people are VERY unhappy about .r6000 or .rs6000, naming
> 
> What's wrong with .rs6000?  (ie. Why are some people unhappy about it?)
> 
> -Hugo

I have it on extremely good authority ( as in I'm one of them ) that 
down under in Australia the letters RS refer to a similar expression to
what Americans call 'BS', except the bull is replaced with a rat.

It is a quite derogatory comment. I.E, saying that 'that machine is RS' means
that it is quite probably unserviceable! Obviously not something that IBM would
want to promote. Hence, the name is officially "Risc System/6000". The term
rios is not used by IBM ( or shouldn't be! ).

So, give us Aussies a break, please don't call the newsgroup the
'*.*.ibm.rs6000', it makes a lot of us think of things that we shouldn't!
It's also easy to mistake somebody for flaming the box when they are
merely tring to type it's model number to the internet! 

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Best Regards,

Peter May,

IBM Australia. 
Sydney Support Center,
1-55 Rothschild Avenue,
Rosebery. NSW. 2018. Australia.

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