Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site ho95b.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!mhuxn!houxm!ho95b!wcs 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 Article-I.D.: ho95b.272 Posted: Mon Dec 3 18:22:39 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 4-Dec-84 19:21:32 EST References: <6202@mcvax.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Holmdel NJ Lines: 21 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 ...!ihnp4!ho95b!wcs