Creating a newsgroup for the 6000-series ?

Hugo Calendar hugo at spica.ucsc.edu
Fri Aug 24 08:39:11 AEST 1990


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

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