Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site ucbvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!houxm!houxz!vax135!floyd!whuxle!mit-eddie!genrad!decvax!ucbvax!kre From: kre@ucbvax.UUCP (Robert Elz) Newsgroups: net.news,net.news.group Subject: Re: portability and re-writes Message-ID: <982@ucbvax.UUCP> Date: Tue, 5-Jun-84 15:42:45 EDT Article-I.D.: ucbvax.982 Posted: Tue Jun 5 15:42:45 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 6-Jun-84 07:30:00 EDT References: <1953@utcsstat.UUCP> Organization: U.C. Berkeley Lines: 25 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)