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From: jmsully@uport.UUCP (John M. Sully)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: Starting a Public Access Unix System -- How?
Message-ID: <171@uport.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 23-Oct-87 13:21:18 EST
Article-I.D.: uport.171
Posted: Fri Oct 23 13:21:18 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 25-Oct-87 16:13:18 EST
References: <834@seradg.Dayton.NCR.COM> <7617@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP> <982@csustan.UUCP>
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Keywords: questions opinions
Summary: news on 286
Xref: mnetor comp.unix.questions:4643 comp.unix.xenix:1021

In article <982@csustan.UUCP>, smdev@csustan.UUCP (Scott Hazen Mueller) writes:
> In article <7617@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP> davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen) writes:
> >In article <834@seradg.Dayton.NCR.COM> pat@seradg.Dayton.NCR.COM (Patrick Pesch) writes:
> >|	o  Can a machine of the 286/386 class support usenet links, and
> >|	   provide "news" (Assuming large disks, etc...)?  How much
> >|	   additional system administration burden does this require?
> >
> >You will have to expire (read: delete) old articles or have a hugh disk.
> >See the 'lists' postings for volume, but figure at least 1MB/day coming
> >in. You will need special versions of news for a 286 (minor midifications).

I tried running news 2.10.3 on several 286 machines here and had no end of 
problems.  The main one was that the active file would periodically 
dissappear leaving the system busted and NO oactive file which could be 
used to replace the missing active file without too much pain.  I took to
keeping a copy of the active file around which could be used to replace
the destroyed one, but this foobar'ed the reader.  Oh well.  News runs 
just fine on the '386 (death to the kludgey 286!! it makes my life hell).
-- 
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