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From: dman@homxa.UUCP (#D.ANDERSON)
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Subject: Re: portability and re-writes
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Date: Tue, 5-Jun-84 11:21:24 EDT
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  Ok, Geoff, I give. I still maintain that the pdp 11 is getting to be a bit
of a dinosaur, but hey - I still think they're nice machines and netnews should
work on them. There shouldn't be a division of the net.

  Lets see those shells! I understand what you mean by the internals of the
news system; I hacked it to run on our UNIX/370. But I have heard 2.11 rumors
and we have had 2.10.1 for over a year now. If you have a rewrite, please
beta test it and post it. As long as things remain compatable, I think that
most everyone would appreciate better/faster/cleaner code.

  As far as 64 byte addressing machines, who knows? If the bio-computists have
there way they'll be building 1 cc memories around 2015, and paging will not
be nearly as important as how to find enough information stick in them.

    Dave Anderson  201-949-5552