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From: plocher@puff.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: Starting a Public Access Unix System -- How?
Message-ID: <1169@puff.wisc.edu>
Date: Wed, 28-Oct-87 21:29:02 EST
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Posted: Wed Oct 28 21:29:02 1987
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Reply-To: plocher@puff.WISC.EDU (John Plocher)
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In article <84@ateng.UUCP> chip@ateng.UUCP (Chip Salzenberg) writes:
>>I tried running news 2.10.3 on several 286 machines here and had no end of 
>>problems.
>
>You know, I run news on a Xenix/286 system and I haven't had this problem...
>
>>John M. Sully         UUCP: ...!{sun | ucbvax | ihnp4}!amdcad!uport!techs
>>Microport Systems     ARPA: uport!techs@ucscc.UCSC.EDU
>
>Oh, that explains everything.  :-)
>
>Chip Salzenberg         "chip@ateng.UUCP"  or  "{uunet,usfvax2}!ateng!chip"
>A.T. Engineering        My employer's opinions are not mine, but these are.

Even that :-) doesn't cut it here.  I *tried* to bring up 2.10.2 on
Xenix and had no end of problems.  I had the same problems with it on
Microport.  2.10.3 was better, but it took until 2.11 for news to be happy
on any 286 box.  The problem is and was not with Microsoft, SCO, or Microport;
rather it was with code which was designed in a "all the world's a Vax"
environment.  So, let's not bash each other on the heads with religious
fluff - life's too short to waste it on this level of yelling.

 -John