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From: bob@rel.eds.com (Bob Leffler)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: Starting a Public Access Unix System -- How?
Message-ID: <456@rel.eds.com>
Date: Mon, 26-Oct-87 06:08:15 EST
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Posted: Mon Oct 26 06:08:15 1987
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Organization: Electronic Data Systems, GM Truck & Bus Account
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Summary: news on PC`s
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In article <171@uport.UUCP>, jmsully@uport.UUCP (John M. Sully) writes:
> 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).


I have run news sucessfully (versions 2.10.X and 2.11.X) for several years
now on a IBM PC (8086) running Xenix-86.   Yes, there were a few minor
changes that had to be made, but they wre fairly trivial.

I also know of at least a half a dozen or so sites that are currently using
your os on 286's and news is running just fine also.

Granted that news runs extremely slow on these machines, but they do work.


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Bob Leffler  -  Electronic Data Systems, GM Truck & Bus Account
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