Path: utzoo!utstat!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!texbell!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: news.software.b Subject: Re: Time for 8 bit news, isn't it?????. Message-ID: <.Y_48ZB@xds13.ferranti.com> Date: 30 Jul 90 15:36:12 GMT References: <1990Jul13.022224.25441@lth.se> <3119.269d97ea@mccall.com> <777@hades.ausonics.oz.au> <15688@bfmny0.BFM.COM> <+7Y$AV&@rpi.edu> <1990Jul21.091529.29557@lth.se> <1857@krafla.rhi.hi.is> <37713@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> <1990Jul29.171112.4093@watmath.waterloo.edu> Reply-To: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 14 In article <1990Jul29.171112.4093@watmath.waterloo.edu> tmatimar@watmath.waterloo.edu (Ted M A Timar) writes: > I don't see why we spend so much time catering to people who are unwilling > to upgrade their software to more recent versions. Unwilling? Or unable? I have not been able to get B news at a higher patch level than 14 to run on Xenix System III/286. We don't have the option of upgrading to a newer O/S: we depend on certain programs that won't run on anything else. I have sidestepped the problem by switching to C news, at the cost of a 13 hour unpaid day during the christmas shutdown, plus days of after hours hacking before and after. And recent versions of C news have broken again... I'm now several patches behind. News 3.0 was never an option... it's just too big. -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' +1 713 274 5180. 'U`