comp.* hierarchy

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Major class of newsgroups in Usenet

The comp.* hierarchy is a major class of newsgroups in Usenet, containing all newsgroups whose name begins with "comp.", organized hierarchically.

comp.* groups discuss various computer, technology, and programming issues. Some groups can even offer peer-to-peer technical support.

Partial list of comp.* groups

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Newsgroup Topic

comp.ai artificial intelligence

comp.arch computer architecture

comp.bbs Bulletin board system system discussion and advertisement

comp.dcom.telecom telecommunications systems

comp.dsp Digital signal processing

comp.graphics.apps.photoshop Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign.

comp.graphics.api.opengl OpenGL

comp.infosystems.gemini Gemini space

comp.infosystems.gopher Gopher protocol

comp.internet.services.wiki Wikis

comp.lang.asm.x86 assembly language for x86-based computer systems.

comp.lang.c C programming language

comp.lang.c++ C++ programming language

comp.lang.java.help Java programming language help

comp.lang.javascript JavaScript programming language

comp.lang.perl.misc Perl programming language

comp.lang.python Python programming language

comp.os.linux.misc Linux operating system

comp.os.minix Minix operating system

comp.programming Miscellaneous discussion of programming

comp.robotics.misc All aspects of robots and their applications

comp.robotics.research Academic, government and industry research in robotics

comp.software-eng software engineering

comp.soft-sys.matlab MathWorks calculation and visualization package

comp.sources.d any computer sources

comp.sources.wanted Requests for software and bug fixes

comp.theory Theoretical computer science

comp.theory.cell-automata cellular automata

comp.theory.self-org-sys Self-organizing systems

comp.theory.dynamic-sys Ergodic theory and dynamical systems

comp.theory.info-retrieval Information retrieval

comp.windows.x X window system

comp.windows.x.kde KDE desktop environment

Historical groups

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Newsgroup Topic

comp.sources.unix Postings of public-domain sources for Unix. (Moderated)

comp.windows.news Discussion about Sun Microsystems NeWS and PostScript related technologies.

It often got hijacked by users that weren't aware of the original purpose of the group, believing it was a newsgroup about Windows and Microsoft. This often led to flame wars between the long time users, who were upset from this situation, and the unaware users.