DECUS Heritage
Version: 1.6b, May 1993
Submitted By: Chris Pugmire, Industrial Research Ltd.
Operating System: ULTRIX, OpenVMS VAX
Software Requirements: TCP/IP
Hardware Requirements: C
Abstract: Internet NEWS could be useful. Lots of people don't use it, they try it a few times and give up. Why? NEWS is only useful if the user can quickly and easily scan and select the items of interest. Many potential users have turned away from this electronic information system because the clumsy/slow interfaces have made it too unproductive. Many system administrators have given up trying to install news on their systems because of the resources it consumes.
Last Update: Thu Jan 11 18:48:48 1996
Submitted By: Chris Pugmire, Industrial Research Ltd.
Operating System: ULTRIX, OpenVMS VAX
Software Requirements: TCP/IP
Hardware Requirements: C
Abstract: Internet NEWS could be useful. Lots of people don't use it, they try it a few times and give up. Why? NEWS is only useful if the user can quickly and easily scan and select the items of interest. Many potential users have turned away from this electronic information system because the clumsy/slow interfaces have made it too unproductive. Many system administrators have given up trying to install news on their systems because of the resources it consumes.
FNEWS is a fast low overhead news reader, by caching just the information that people actually read it gives a fast friendly interface without using up large quantities of disk, CPU or network I/O. Even over slow (9600 Baud) network connections FNEWS gives considerably faster performance than ANU-NEWS achieves with locally stored items.
FNEWS runs on both VMS and UNIX.
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Last Update: Thu Jan 11 18:48:48 1996