Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!ginosko!uunet!centec!egranthm From: egranthm@centec.UUCP (Ewan Grantham) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: A bit of perspective, please. Summary: NeXT bugs Keywords: Version 1.0 Message-ID: <36@centec.UUCP> Date: 27 Sep 89 13:12:24 GMT References: <5125@ubc-cs.UUCP> <1989Sep26.201525.3069@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Organization: centec Lines: 26 In article <1989Sep26.201525.3069@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>, dorner@pequod.cso.uiuc.edu (Steve Dorner) writes: > 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. Gosh, I don't suppose one of y'all who are having all these problems with their cubes would be interested in donating it to a worthy cause? :-) Seriously, are things REALLY this bad? I've been working on the powers that be here to get a NeXT so I could set-up an expert system to write the lion's share of our Interactive Courseware (after all, there's only so many ways to run a touch-screen in concert with a laserdisk player). However, if the thing is going to be crashing every few minutes... Ewan Grantham - Centec Advanced Tech. (...uunet!centec!egranthm) Confronting the impossible with the unthinkable