Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2000 12:02:11 -0500 From: Bill Vermillion <bill@bilver.magicnet.net> To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: News Server reccomendations (one more thing) Message-ID: <20000106120210.B8244@bilver.magicnet.net> In-Reply-To: <200001061647.LAA26911@benge.graphics.cornell.edu> References: <andrew@pubnix.net> <200001061647.LAA26911@benge.graphics.cornell.edu>
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On Thu, Jan 06, 2000 at 11:47:55AM -0500, Thus Spake Mitch Collinsworth: > BTW, is 7 years of full-time news without a failure a record for disk > longevity? Drat - forgot one thing. The original RS machine used B news - and if the news feed used over 13 bit compression - the 1MB max memory limit in hardware would make decompression take so much longer than transmission it was unuseable. One time someone sent a days worth of news with 16 bit compression turned on and it took almost 24 hours to unspool it. Probalby a whipping 20 MB! :-( Things surely have gotten much better -- Bill Vermillion bv @ wjv.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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