Newsgroups: news.software.b Path: utzoo!utstat!geoff From: geoff@utstat.uucp (Geoff Collyer) Subject: Re: Why call it C news? Message-ID: <1989Aug19.001609.29506@utstat.uucp> Organization: Statistics, U. of Toronto References: <1989Aug18.201907.20900@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov> Date: Sat, 19 Aug 89 00:16:09 GMT David Robinson: >Why is C news called "C" news? ... it appears to just be a total rewrite >of the B news code, just like 3.0 news (aka TMNN). I invented the name "C news" to make it plain that our code was written from scratch, contains no B news code and never did contain any B news code. The "official" name of TMNN is B 3.0 news; from what Eric has said to us, it did start life as B 2.11 news and was then rewritten, piece by piece. >I can see the possible confusion with 3.0 news in the numbering >scheme but didn't C news start first? Why wasn't it news 3.0? We started on C news during 1985. Henry wrote C expire first, then I wrote C relaynews in the fall of 1985 and coined the name "C news" at that time. I gather TMNN started a year or more later. In 1985, we had no idea whether or not Rick would some day want to release a B 3.0 news of his own, and our code isn't B news. -- Geoff Collyer utzoo!utstat!geoff, geoff@utstat.toronto.edu