Related Work

  In late summer 1996 a news cache similar to our News Cache has been released as a beta version. This other news cache is called nntpcache and is currently available in version 1.0.3. The nntpcache is available from ftp://ftp.suburbia.net/pub/nntpcache/. It has been written entirely in C and uses memory mapped files similar to the News Cache.

For the test of the nntpcache we only had a DEC Alpha computer running Linux available and the nntpcache crashed soon after it was started. However, this may be related to a type problem (32/64Bit integers). Nntpcache works on Intel Pentium machines running Linux.

Unfortunately we could not find any work published along with the nntpcache or dealing with it in any form. Hence we cannot provide comparisons to the nntpcacheīs design decisions.