Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: Notesfiles; site ea.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!vax135!houxz!houxm!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!ea!mwm From: mwm@ea.UUCP Newsgroups: net.news Subject: Apologies, with whimpers... - (nf) Message-ID: <8700004@ea.UUCP> Date: Sun, 17-Jun-84 23:04:00 EDT Article-I.D.: ea.8700004 Posted: Sun Jun 17 23:04:00 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 22-Jun-84 07:23:06 EDT Lines: 27 Nf-ID: #N:ea:8700004:000:1025 Nf-From: ea!mwm Jun 17 22:04:00 1984 #N:ea:8700004:000:1025 ea!mwm Jun 17 22:04:00 1984 I posted an article on the "Why make news run on a PDP-11" argument a while ago that was both poorly expressed, and inappropriate. I was correctly called to task, and want to publicly retract some of my comments. My (corrected) views are: 1) News should not reach a state wherein it will not run on a machine active on the net at the time it is distributed. 2) Regardless of this, a new (and better?) version of news that won't run on 11's could be distributed, *provided it is compatible with one that will*. Compatible means the new and old software can at least exchange articles. 3) The PDP-11 is an obsolete machine, mostly because of the segmented address space. However, this is not sufficient reason to assume that your software won't have to run on it. 4) I should never have gotten involved in this anyway. After all, I am among the enlightened that use notes :-). I was responding to a perceived software design issue, as opposed to the NetNews issue under discussion. My apologies to all.