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From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: C news on a 3B1/7300 (or B news with mdbm)
Message-ID: <1990Mar22.164655.10340@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <22541@ditka.UUCP> <647@magnus.Hotline.Com> <22843@ditka.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 90 16:46:55 GMT

In article <22843@ditka.UUCP> kls@ditka.UUCP (Karl Swartz) writes:
>Urk?  I thought C news was supposed to be ever so much faster than
>B news, and thus should be better for a little 'ole 3B1?!

Well, it ran fine on our little 'ole pdp11/44, and we've heard from
satisfied customers running it on 3B1s, so there's no inherent problem.

>Also, I hear the C news folks are completely redoing the config-
>uration script...

The revamping of the configuration stuff happened in January.  No major
changes are planned for it in the near future, although some minor
improvements are on the to-do list.
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