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> Most Pentium boards will hold up to 2 gigs of RAM now I think, 
> you could just do it with a RAM disk  and a backup hard drive. 
> When it boots, copy everything from the hard disk to the RAM 
> disk and off you go..

How about feeding off a "real" news server to nntpcache running
on RAM disk? That avoids the need to rebuild at bootup (yeuch) and
you will be able to present a much better range of articles and
still have the commonly read/recent ones in ram.


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