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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
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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