Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ginosko!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!uwm.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!pequod.cso.uiuc.edu!dorner 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: <1989Sep27.152536.22596@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Date: 27 Sep 89 15:25:36 GMT References: <5125@ubc-cs.UUCP> <1989Sep26.201525.3069@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> <36@centec.UUCP> Sender: news@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (News) Reply-To: dorner@pequod.cso.uiuc.edu (Steve Dorner) Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Lines: 29 In article <36@centec.UUCP> egranthm@centec.UUCP (Ewan Grantham) writes: >> [partial quote of my article] >Seriously, are things REALLY this bad? No, and *I* never said they were *bad* at all. I said they weren't what Jobs said they would be, which was *well-nigh perfect*. Let me set the record straight, publicly and unequivocally: 1. I LIKE MY CUBE. 2. Some of the applications have some bugs, but nothing disastrous. I've been using a cube as my main squeeze since December, and have been on the whole very satisfied, starting with 0.8. 3. My 1.0 cube has paniced EXACTLY ONCE. Mach/UNIX have been very good all the way back to 0.8. 4. Buy them. Buy LOTS of them. Buy so many of them that NeXT makes a ton of money, and can go on offering more bang/buck than anyone else in the industry. I have absolutely no connection with NeXT other than as a customer. I am not part of the UIUC Workstation Support Group, which provides support for them. I do not get one thin dime of any money, prestige, or fame from the sale of any cube anywhere. Put THAT in your Kama Sutra looseleaf... -- Steve Dorner, U of Illinois Computing Services Office Internet: s-dorner@uiuc.edu UUCP: {convex,uunet}!uiucuxc!dorner IfUMust: (217) 244-1765