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From: john@basser.oz (John Mackin)
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: Re: Suggestion: article number 0
Message-ID: <356@basser.oz>
Date: Wed, 26-Jun-85 03:51:27 EDT
Article-I.D.: basser.356
Posted: Wed Jun 26 03:51:27 1985
Date-Received: Thu, 27-Jun-85 23:59:42 EDT
References: <905@sdcsla.UUCP> <779@plus5.UUCP>
Reply-To: john@basser.oz (John Mackin)
Organization: Dept. of Comp. Science, Univ. of Sydney, Australia
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Summary: throw UUCP out!

In article <779@plus5.UUCP> hokey@plus5.UUCP (Hokey) writes:

> What ever happened to the stuff
> written in Australia (a replacement for UUCP)?

You mean SUN III?  We're all running it.  Nothing bad has happened to it.
It has just got steadily better.  We have a link to Bell Labs that
also runs it.  I could go on at length about why it's better than
UUCP, but this article would get too long.

There is no reason that SUN III can't completely replace UUCP (in
theory).  In practice, it seems that as everyone gets UUCP free
with their UNIX, whereas we would like to charge a nominal fee
to commercial organizations for SUN III, it isn't going to take
off in the US.  Too bad.  Everyone here loves it.

If you want licensing or other info on SUN III, please mail Dr.
Bob Kummerfeld, ...!seismo!munnari!basser.oz!bob.

John Mackin, Basser Department of Computer Science,
	     University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
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