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From: john@zentec.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.news,net.news.b,net.micro
Subject: Usenet on an 8086 micro
Message-ID: <36@zentec.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 17-Aug-84 14:29:04 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug 17 14:29:04 1984
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Why  does readnews run so well on an 11/70 and not on an 8086
based  Xenix system, you might ask ?  If one looks at defs.h,
one  will  find an ifdef on pdp11.  This changes a well  used
buffer   define   to  a  smaller   value  which   makes   the
data/bss/stack area in readnews fit in a 64K segment.  If one
does not define pdp11, readnews and other programs  will  run 
some of the time but not all of the time (save does not work,
drops core, etc.).

from defs.h:

> #ifdef pdp11
> # define BUFLEN 128 /* standard buffer size   */
> #else
> # define BUFLEN 256 /* standard buffer size   */
> #endif


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