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From: dorner@pequod.cso.uiuc.edu (Steve Dorner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: A bit of perspective, please.
Keywords: Version 1.0
Message-ID: <1989Sep26.201525.3069@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Date: 26 Sep 89 20:15:25 GMT
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Reply-To: dorner@pequod.cso.uiuc.edu (Steve Dorner)
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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In article <5125@ubc-cs.UUCP> halliday@cc.ubc.ca (Laura Halliday) writes:
>	This is version 1.0 of a radically new system!
>
>...Give them time. Let the system develop and mature.

I heard Steve Jobs say (more than once) that 1.0 was going to be "bug-free,
commercial quality software", not like typical UNIX releases.

In point of fact, 1.0 is just as buggy as a SunOS release.  In the three
days I've had 1.0 up, I've been bitten by half a dozen bugs, and paniced the
system once.  It seems clear to me that the decision to call this
release 1.0 was simply a bow to marketing pressure.  0.95 is more like it.

Don't get me wrong; I LIKE my cube, I LIKE the software.  I think NeXT
is making reasonable progress.  But it's not what NeXT claimed it would be,
and that does bother me a little; I don't like being misled.
-- 
Steve Dorner, U of Illinois Computing Services Office
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