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Also known as: comp
The Big 8 branch for computing: hardware, operating systems, programming languages, networking, and applications. Groups such as comp.lang.c and comp.os.linux.misc carried heavy technical discussion through the 1990s, and a handful remain among the more active text groups anywhere on Usenet. Like the rest of the Big 8, comp.* is text only, and posting encoded files there breaches the group charters.
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