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Subject: Re: lots of newsgroups
Message-ID: <1987Jul9.165815.21999@utstat.uucp>
Date: Thu, 9-Jul-87 16:58:15 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jul  9 16:58:15 1987
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Summary: C news *already* works on 16-bit machines

In article <362@pcrat.UUCP> rick@pcrat.UUCP (Rick Richardson) writes:
> Else, C news
>could be made to work for more newsgroups on 16 bit machines (but what
>I waste of effort that would prove to be).

C news already runs on 16-bit machines: utzoo and utcsstat are PDP-11s.
C rnews weakly prefers machines large enough to cache the active and sys
files in memory, but it will merely run a bit more slowly on very small
machines.  Current sys and active files (with the possible exception of
ucbvax's sys file :-) are small enough that they fit in memory on
PDP-11s.
-- 
Geoff Collyer	utzoo!utstat!geoff, utstat.toronto.{edu,cdn}!geoff