Subject: Re: port-ables@netbsd.org.
To: Andrew Gillham <gillhaa@ghost.whirlpool.com>
From: Bill Studenmund <skippy@macro.stanford.edu>
List: current-users
Date: 02/24/1996 13:42:17
On Sat, 24 Feb 1996, Andrew Gillham wrote:

> > 
> > How would y'all like a new list on pain.lcs called "port-ables" (or
> > something less whimsicle if someone finds this objectionable)? It
> > seems to me that many of the technical concerns of the laptop crowd
> > are distinct from those of current-users and port-i386. I hereby
> > pledge to offer as many answers as questions on the list if it's
> > created.
> 
> How about 'port-able-i386@netbsd.org', or 'port-i386-able@netbsd@org'?
> Otherwise what about Mac PowerBooks, SparcBooks, etc?

I don't have a portable, but was thinking that most of the
differences between portables and desktops (power management
and hotswapping come to my novice mind) are fairly common across
all portable lines. So wouldn't a port-wide list be better?

Take care,

Bill