IBM RS/6000 unsuitable for news

[Jose Angel Vela Avila]

bglenden at colobus.cv.nrao.edu (Brian Glendenning) writes:

>In my opinion, IBM/RS6000 machines running AIX 3, are unsuitable for
>running usenet news because the filesystems only have 4k blocks, and
>thus waste a lot of space for usenet news. (Also, the number of inodes
>is fixed, which would be painful if we could drop the block size...).



  mmmm... How about News from remote server ???

 We have a 520 running News from our News server (Vax 6310) and everithing

  works ok !!


Jose A. Vela