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From: okamoto@hpccc.HP.COM (Jeff Okamoto)
Newsgroups: news.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Re: Why are news articles separate files? (lack of inodes)
Message-ID: <5240001@hpccc.HP.COM>
Date: 8 Sep 88 22:22:09 GMT
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cball@ishmael writes:

> Since no one else has mentioned it, there is a system that keeps "news"
> in a database.  It is called notes.  Notes is an independent development
> that was derived from the PLATO system originated by CDC.  Notes was
> written by Ray Essick at the University of Illinois.  The latest full
> release I've seen was 1.7 and was released in early 1985.

Notes is actively used here at HP.  We are up to release 2.8.2.

Everything else that was mentioned is true.

Jeff Okamoto
HP Corporate Computing Center
(415) 857-6236