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File:          knews-1.tgz
Description:a new approach to storing news
Keywords:      news News Internet internet KNews knews
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KNews is a radically new approach to storing news on a machine, that
is several orders of magnitude less resource intensive than traditional
approaches to storing news (such as Cnews, etc).  KNews is even suitable
for "underpowered" machines, like a 386/486 class processor, whereas
traditional news systems require the latest and fastest CPUs and disks.

This beta release focuses on the following:

	o	introducing KNews to the QNX community,

	o	gauging interest in KNews

	o	examining the performance increase with KNews over
		traditional news systems

	o	providing a free/low_cost version of the ultimate
		KNews product, which will be a commercial product
		available late '96.

KNews consists of two major components, a newsfeeder program ("knews")
and a virtual file system manager ("VFsys.knews").  These two programs
cooperate with each other to implement KNews.

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