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If you have socket() and select() then INN will probably run on your
machine.

• INN is distributed as source code in C. You need all the operating system header files, and compiling tools.
  
• Even if you do have socket() and select() there still may be a great deal of "tweaking" to get it to compile. There are many, many compile-time options built into INN, so you will have a lot to tweak. Instead of being a pioneer, you can learn what others have done. The INN FAQ has pointers for this (INN FAQ Table Of Contents for Part 9/9 Configurations for Certain Systems)
  and (INN FAQ Table Of Contents for Part 2/9 Specific Notes for Specific operating systems)
  
• A lot of the daily maintenance operations of INN are implemented in Bourne shell scripts, and the Unix utilities awk and sed.
  
• Newer versions (1.5 and up) of INN use perl.
  
• Most importantly: be aware that the demands of Usenet are outside the capabilities of some hardware. Just because INN "runs" does not mean that it will run well! You should read Usenet Hardware and Operating system requirements
  

In addition to the common platforms found around the Internet
(SunOS and Ultrix, for example), INN runs on IBM's AIX, Apple's A/UX,
NeXT, Solaris 2.x, most SVR4 platforms, BSDI, most free BSD systems 
(NetBSD, FreeBSD, ...) and a host of others.  It might require a
little bit of tweaking of some free BSD platforms that have really bad
shells.

INN has not been ported to Windows NT.  There are no plans to do so.
However, someone has written a package called NNS (Usenet Network News
Server) which is a NNTP-compliant news server for Windows NT.  For
information write to nns@jeck.wa.com.