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From: mjranum@gouldsd.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp,news.admin
Subject: Re: Scary Thought ...
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Date: Thu, 5-Mar-87 08:58:42 EST
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Posted: Thu Mar  5 08:58:42 1987
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Summary: Mush dos...


	Another small point: running news on a PC with uulink is
still a longish way away. Why ? Well, the news software actually
pipes a whole bunch of commands through a series of pipes that
would gag an IBM in no time at all. Mush-Dos implements pipes by
making a tempfile on your disk and then execcing it's way along 
the pipe. Implementing a 4 step pipe (even on a hot motherboard 
like mine that is 3X IBM speed) takes quite a while. There's also
the matter of diskspace, etc, etc, etc.
	
	I don't think the problem is going to be tons of PCs, I
think the problem is going to be exponentially increasing traffic.
The PCs will weed themselves out. After all, it would take one all
night to process the amount of news we get here, not to mention 
phone costs, and disk space needs that would tend to make it (for
now) prohibitively expensive for the home hobbyist.

--mjr();
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