From owner-freebsd-hardware Mon Apr 15 14:02:49 1996 Return-Path: owner-hardware Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id OAA06299 for hardware-outgoing; Mon, 15 Apr 1996 14:02:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lserver.infoworld.com (lserver.infoworld.com [192.216.48.4]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA06284 for ; Mon, 15 Apr 1996 14:02:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ccgate.infoworld.com by lserver.infoworld.com with smtp (Smail3.1.29.1 #12) id m0u8vby-000wteC; Mon, 15 Apr 96 14:15 PDT Received: from cc:Mail by ccgate.infoworld.com id AA829602093; Mon, 15 Apr 96 15:32:07 PST Date: Mon, 15 Apr 96 15:32:07 PST From: "Brett Glass" Message-Id: <9603158296.AA829602093@ccgate.infoworld.com> To: Heikki Suonsivu Cc: hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Micropolis 1991 AV 9GB Drive Sender: owner-hardware@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Is the news system you are using available freely ? It's based on a real-time executive that carries per-copy royalties, alas. (NOTHING can beat a good real-time kernel for an intense application like NetNews.) I would like to port it to something else, but would need to find (or write) a suitable RTX that could be freely distributed. --Brett