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From: wcs@ho95b.UUCP (Bill Stewart)
Newsgroups: net.micro.pc
Subject: Re: Is it feasible to connect a PC running UNIX to USENET?
Message-ID: <272@ho95b.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 3-Dec-84 18:22:39 EST
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Posted: Mon Dec  3 18:22:39 1984
Date-Received: Tue, 4-Dec-84 19:21:32 EST
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Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Holmdel NJ
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Guido and others interested:
	Yes.  Lauren Weintein's machine "vortex" is an IBM-PC running
Coherent.  He often posts articles to various newsgroups, but one
usable address is ihnp4!vortex!lauren.  He also is marketing versions
of uucp that will run on lots of things, including Unix-compatible
systems and non-Unix operating systems.

Basically, you need a hard disk to run UNIX on a PC, both for swapping,
and for storing all the programs and libraries (plus you'll need
several meg for storing netnews articles.)   Typical hardware includes
an MS-DOS PC of some sort, with >= 10 Meg disk, 512K, autodialer modem
(a Hayes-compatible modem is most likely to be supported.)
A hard-wired line to a larger machine would be valuable.
You might have an easier time if you have your machine polled by other
machines rather than you polling them; this is especially beneficial if
you have uucp problems, or if you have a modem that uucp won't dial out
on.
-- 
			Bill Stewart
			AT&T Bell Labs, Holmdel NJ 1-201-949-0705
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