Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!husc6!bbn!rochester!cornell!batcomputer!itsgw!steinmetz!uunet!cbmvax!snark!eric From: eric@snark.UUCP (Eric S. Raymond) Newsgroups: news.software.b Subject: News 3.0 open beta test Message-ID:Date: 22 Jun 88 18:13:21 GMT Organization: Justified Ancients of Muammu Lines: 59 Gene Spafford recently posted an article urging me to coordinate an open beta test of News 3.0 before release. I am quite willing to do this; the software has already run successfully on enough different systems (including 680x0, Pyramid, and VAX processors under System V and 4.[23]BSD and under XENIX and Microport UNIX on [23]86 boxes) that I feel very confident of its stability and portability (it doesn't hurt that the *entire* suite lints clean). Volunteers for this round so far include: Site Machine UNIX flavor Contact ------- ------- ----------- -------------------------------------------- sco 80386 SCO XENIX V Steph Marr (stephm), Keith Reynolds (keithr) hoptoad 68020 SunOS 3.2 John Gilmore (gnu) killer 3B2/500 SVr3.1.1 Bill Wisner (wisner) u1100a 68010 SVr2 Eric Krohn (krohn) csccat HP9000 HP-UX 5.22 Jack Hudler (jack) As you can see, we're short of BSD sites (could it be that *gasp* AT&T really *is* the standard ;-)?). Somebody with a VAX running good old crufty 4.2 wanna volunteer? The SCO people are going to test on a 286; I'd also love to recruit NS32032, SPARC and a couple of RISC sites. The following is a list of old beta sites that I haven't heard from in a while. site contact processor UNIX version ------- ----------------------- ----------- ------------------------------ cbmvax grr (George Robbins) VAX 11/750 Ultrix 1.2, essentially 4.2BSD cbm grr (George Robbins) Zilog S8000 Zeus 5.2, a mildly wonky SVr1 jekkara grr (George Robbins) Zilog S8000 Zeus 3.21, SIII + BSD stuff tapa larry (L. Pajakowski) 80286 (PC AT) XENIX 3.0 extel larry (L. Pajakowski) PDP11/70 BSD2.9 hutch barber (Steve Barber) VAX, 3B2 SVr2, 4.1BSD spectrix clewis (Chris Lewis) 68020 XENIX 3.0 (5.0 soon) mnetor ron (Ron Miller) Pyramid 90x OSx 2.5 (3.0 soon) amdahl gam (G. A. Moffet) Amdahl 5890 SVr2 riacs mab (Matt Bishop) ? ? vu-vlsi perry (Rick Perry) Pyramid 90x OSx3.1 (SVr1 + 4.2BSD) seismo rick (Rick Adams) Celerity 1206D 4.2BSD with NFS elsie ado (Arthur Olsen) ? ? devon paul (P. Sutcliffe Jr) 286? XENIX dragon bobm (Bob McQueer) ? ? Are you guys still alive? Do you want to get active again? CAVEAT: I am *still* missing vetted NNTP/NFS support. If your site depends on this, best sit this round out. To play, you must establish a login at my machine and be willing to poll me. I will queue full sources for uucp on request and issue periodic bulletins and patches to everyone who's formally on the beta list. I can be reached most of the time at my home phone (given below). Feel free to e-mail or call me with any questions. -- Eric S. Raymond (the mad mastermind of TMN-Netnews) UUCP: {{uunet,rutgers,ihnp4}!cbmvax,rutgers!vu-vlsi,att}!snark!eric Post: 22 South Warren Avenue, Malvern, PA 19355 Phone: (215)-296-5718