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From: kre@ucbvax.UUCP (Robert Elz)
Newsgroups: net.news,net.news.group
Subject: Re: portability and re-writes
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Date: Tue, 5-Jun-84 15:42:45 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jun  5 15:42:45 1984
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Australia doesn't get net.news so we weren't aware that this
discussion was happening (until I read it this news item at Berkeley)

But, for your info, Michael Rourke, at the University of New South Wales
has rewritten 2.10.1 news (essentially entirely) principally in order
to make it smaller, and run effectively on pdp-11's.  There are several
34's now running news in Aust (though mostly they get no net.all groups
as they tend not to have sufficient disk space).

The UNSW version is entirely compatible with B news at system interface
level, its user interface is slightly different (sometimes needlessly
so in my opinion) but not so radically different that you would not
feel at home.

If you want more information on this, you should send mail to

	decvax!mulga!michaelr:elecvax

(or any of the following equivalents ..
	decvax!mulga!elecvax!michaelr
	decvax!mulga!michaelr@elecvax
	decvax!mulga!michaelr.elecvax
Don't post news on this subject to these groups, it won't be seen).

Robert Elz   decvax!mulga!kre   (temporarily kre@ucbmonet.berkeley.arpa)